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Primstav and Apocalypse Time and its Reckoning in Medieval Scandinavia

Medievalists.net — Thu, 22 May 2014 07:58:15 +0000

This work is intended as an exploration of methods of time-reckoning and conception in Medieval Scandinavia. In the main this is tied to the dynamism between a duality: that of the cyclical and linear models of time‟s progression. Involved in this study are sources verbal and pictoral.

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Tasting Histories Lecture: “Seasonal and Local Dining in the Middle Ages”

Medievalists.net — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 18:23:56 +0000

This was a paper given at the University of Toronto by Yale Professor, Paul freedman, on food during the Middle Ages and Early Modern period.

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Early medieval science: the evidence of Bede

Medievalists.net — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:52:39 +0000

The Venerable Bede used observable proofs and mathematical calculations in his early 8th-century treatise De temporum ratione to teach the astronomical principles that inform the calculation of the date of Easter. This suggests that the seeds of the modern scientific method might be found before the 12th century in the educational practices of the early medieval monasteries.

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