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Landscape and Warfare in Anglo-Saxon England and the Viking Campaign of 1006

Medievalists.net — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 05:33:34 +0000

The last twenty-five years have seen huge advances made in the way that battlefields can be recorded and understood through archaeological techniques, but these methods have only recently been accepted as a useful complement to traditional military history.

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Mapping a New View of the Medieval World

Medievalists.net — Fri, 12 Jun 2015 13:10:25 +0000

Maps do more than show us the way and identify major landmarks – rivers, towns, roads and hills. For centuries, they also offered a perspective on how societies viewed themselves in comparison to the rest of the world.

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Irish and Scots may have been first to settle Iceland, researcher finds

Medievalists.net — Tue, 26 May 2015 04:29:45 +0000

It has long been believed that the first people to inhabit Iceland were the Norse settlers who arrived around the year 874 AD. However, the discovery of Christian crosses carved into man-made caves in the southern part of the island is offering evidence that Celtic-speaking people from Scotland and Ireland had come to Iceland around the beginning the ninth century.

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Vikings in the Prehistoric Landscape: Studies on Mainland Orkney

Medievalists.net — Tue, 19 May 2015 03:41:27 +0000

Norse colonists in Orkney contended not only with the islands’ existing occupants, but also with a foreign landscape filled with visible ancient monuments. This paper provides a brief synthesis of the results of research on the landscapes of Viking-Age and Late-Norse Orkney which explored the strategies undertaken by the Norse settlers to re-model their social identities in their adopted environment.

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Nottingham’s Maze of Medieval Caves gets fully surveyed

Medievalists.net — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 16:13:17 +0000

For the first time, the entire network of 549 caves underneath Nottingham has been fully surveyed, revealing new details about what lies under the surface of the English city.

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The Universal Atlas of Fernão Vaz Dourado

Medievalists.net — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 18:29:07 +0000

Vaz Dourado authored at least four different nautical atlases, each of them including 20 maps, painted between 1568 and 1580, which is to say at the pinnacle of Portuguese cartography.

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Medieval Maps of Britain

Medievalists.net — Sun, 08 Feb 2015 18:57:47 +0000

How did people depict England, Scotland and Wales in the Middle Ages? Here are 15 images of maps created between the 11th and 16th centuries, which shows how maps developed over history.

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The Original Placement of the Hereford Map

Medievalists.net — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 20:15:15 +0000

This paper relies on new masonry and dendrochronological evidence and the system of medieval ecclesiastical preferments to argue that this monumental world map was originally exhibited in 1287 next to the first shrine of St Thomas Cantilupe in Hereford Cathedral’s north transept.

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Horticultural Landscapes in Middle English Romance

Medievalists.net — Fri, 26 Dec 2014 01:04:38 +0000

Gardens played a significant role in the lives of European peoples living in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

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Recovering the lost details of a medieval map

Medievalists.net — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 16:14:36 +0000

Researchers at Yale University have started a project to recover details from a 15th-century world map which had been obscured after centuries of fading.

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