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Imprisonment, Execution and Escape: Medieval History and the National Curriculum

Medievalists.net — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 13:37:14 +0000

The final talk in Sesson #1041, Engaging the Public with the Medieval World, looked at what English children are being taught in school. How much medieval history is in the new programme that was released in September 2014? Megan Gooch, Curator at the Historic Royal Palaces breaks down the English system for us in her paper, ‘Imprisonment, Execution, and Escape: Medieval History and the National Curriculum’.

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Making the Castle a Home: Creating an Immersive Medieval World Using Live Costumed Interpreters

Medievalists.net — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 10:43:47 +0000

How does the use of unscripted, adaptive, historical interpretation boost the tourist experience? Right on the heels of our look at the Tower of London’s visitor engagement, we heard a paper from Lauren Johnson, Research Manager for Past Pleasures, the oldest historical interpretation company in the UK who educate and entertain the public at historical sites, museums, on stage and and on TV.

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The Experience of Growing Up in Medieval Society

Medievalists.net — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 13:23:26 +0000

This session (#508) was one of several at Leeds devoted to exploring childhood in the Middle Ages. Our presenters talked about the stereotypes of adolescence, and what the coroner’s rolls revealed about the deaths (and lives) of medieval children.

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Trolls in the Middle Ages

Medievalists.net — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 21:03:26 +0000

Where did trolls come from? What did medieval and early modern people think of trolls? How did the concept of the modern day troll evolve?

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The Sounds that Animals Make – the Medieval Version

Medievalists.net — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 04:40:20 +0000

It seems that every parent at one time or another teaches their children the sounds that animals make. They did it in the Middle Ages too.

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Childhood in early Icelandic society: representations of children in the Icelandic Sagas

Medievalists.net — Sun, 16 Nov 2014 17:15:11 +0000

Thirteenth century Icelanders did not sentimentalize childhood, but rather viewed it as a learning stage, a crucial period for the acquisition of culture.

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Picturing Maternal Anxiety in the Miracle of the Jew of Bourges

Medievalists.net — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 12:48:37 +0000

During the middle ages, one of the most popular and most frequently illustrated Miracles of the Virgin Mary was the Miracle of the Jew of Bourges. According to the text of the miracle, the Virgin saves a young Jewish boy after his father throws him into a fiery oven upon learning he attended a Christian mass.

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Would You Survive Childhood In Medieval Europe?

Medievalists.net — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 22:11:12 +0000

When life is tough, it's always most difficult for the children. The advances that allowed people to settle in with farms and cattle increased the nutrition and stability, but there were still plenty of things to worry about in Medieval times. Check your knowledge of childhood during this era!

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‘Sons of athelings given to the earth’: Infant Mortality within Anglo-Saxon Mortuary Geography

Medievalists.net — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 02:47:16 +0000

For 20 or more years early Anglo-Saxon archaeologists have believed children are under-represented in the cemetery evidence.

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Replacing the Father – Representing the Child: A Few Notes on the European History of Guardianship

Medievalists.net — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 02:49:11 +0000

There are medieval European varieties of guardianship that is closely connected to feudal forms of power relations. In English feudal society, where inheritance practice was largely dominated by the principles of primogeniture, the oldest male heir of a deceased father would become the ward of the feudal guardian.

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