The Medieval Magazine: (Volume 3: No. 18): Issue 101: Reformation 500
In this issue: 80+ pages of news, books, articles, exhibits, and events, with a focus on the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation!
Medical and Dietetic References in Medieval German Cookbooks
Medical and Dietetic References in Medieval German Cookbooks By Marialuisa Caparrini I castelli di Yale online, Vol.5:1 (2017) Abstract: This article aims at…
DNA samples reveal Viking Age fish trade
It has been assumed that the Vikings were trading in cod, but so far solid evidence has been lacking. With new methods, it is possible to extract ancient DNA from fishbone remnants and this can provide some exciting new information!
The Walk to Canossa: The Tale of an Emperor and a Pope
Ever since it happened people have been debating what took place at Canossa. Some have called it a brilliant masterstroke by Emperor Henry IV, while others have termed it his humiliation.
Student Life in the Medieval University: The Swedish Experience
What was it like to attend a university in the Middle Ages?
Life in a Small Medieval Town – The Limburg Chronicle
Some scenes of daily life from a small town in medieval Germany, recorded in the fourteenth-century.
Castle for Sale in Germany: Schochwitz Castle
This stunning castle dates from the 15th century, and has been carefully renovated with conservation of many of the original elements.
Augsburg Master Builders’ Ledgers now available online
The material offers incomparable insights into the medieval accounting practices in the City of Augsburg in the period 1320 to 1466.
Medieval Poultry, or A Recipe and a Battle Scene
What follows is not precisely scholarly, but it is one of those delightful byproducts of scholarly work that feed our curiosity.
A Clergyman out of Control: Portrait of a Bishop Around the Year 1000
The following example describes Bishop Megingaud of Eichstaett (991–1014/1015) who was anything but holy.
The Global Side of Medieval at the Getty Centre: Traversing the Globe Through Illuminated Manuscripts
Los Angeles correspondent, Danielle Trynoski takes through the, ‘Traversing the Globe Through Illuminated Manuscripts’ exhibut at the Getty Museum.
Movie Review: Pope Joan – Medieval Legend Comes to Life Onscreen
Released in 2009, also under its German title, ,Die Päpstin,, ,Pope Joan’ recounts the medieval legend of Johanna von Ingleheim, a woman who disguised herself as a man, lived as a monk, and eventually went on to become pope in the ninth century.
‘Crowned with Many Crowns’: Nuns and Their Statues in Late-Medieval Wienhausen
The crowning of statues was a common practice in medieval cloisters, but at the north German convent of Wienhausen, the golden crowns of statues were confiscated by Observant reformers after the reformation of 1469.
The History of German as a Foreign Language in Europe
This article provides the first overview in English of how German has been taught and learned in Europe up to about 1800
How to build a medieval fortress – the construction of Hildagsburg
What does it take to build a fortification in the 10th century?
The Evil Spirit that Terrorized a Medieval Village
Today’s horror movies could make use of this story from the ninth-century, of how an evil spirit terrorized a village, and the attempt to get rid of it, which seems to be one of the earliest recorded exorcisms from the Middle Ages.
Magna Carta Conference Offers New Insights Into The 800-year-old Document
Magna Carta just celebrated its 800th birthday this past Monday. In honour of this incredible milestone, King’s College London, and the Magna Carta Project, hosted a 3 day conference dedicated to this historic document.
Bishops and Their Towns
Another #KZOO2015 post – this one examines Bishops and Their Towns.
Medieval London as Seen through the Eyes of Czech and German Travellers
The aim of this article is to analyze the first depictions of London in Czech literature, namely in travel journals of the Czech writer and traveller Wenzel Schaseck of Birkov and the German burgher Gabriel Tetzel of Gräfenberg
Ostsiedlung or Transition of German Law? Legal Perspective on Settlement According to German Law in Medieval Poland
Paper given at Twenty-First Annual Forum of Young Legal Historians – 6th Berg Institute International Conference
Philippa Langley: The End of Richard III and the Beginning of Henry I
Amidst all the excitement, and the whirlwind that was Richard III’s reburial in Leicester, I managed to catch up with one of the world’s most famous Ricardians, ‘the Kingfinder’, Philippa Langley.
Castle for Sale in Germany: The Sauerburg
This ruined 14th-century castle in western Germany is now used as a hotel for the picturesque region that is designated a World Heritage Site.
Environmental Crusading: The Teutonic Knight’s Impact After the Baltic Crusades
Environmental archaeologist and Professor of Archeology at Reading, Dr. Aleks Pluskowski, examined Malbork and several other sites across Eastern and Northern Europe in his recent paper, The Ecology of Crusading: The Environmental Impact of Holy War, Colonisation, and Religious Conversion in the Medieval Baltic. Pluskowski is keenly interested in the impact the Teutonic Knights and Christian colonisation had on the region. His ambitious 4 year project on the ecological changes in this area recently came to a close at the end of 2014.
The imperial abbey of Ellwangen and its peasants: a study of the polyptych of 1337
This paper presents an analysis of Ellwangen Abbey’s polyptych of 1337, with a view to understanding better the nature of the south German rural economy in this period.
