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What did the Renaissance man wear? Historian recreates outfit from the 16th century
Posted on May 1, 2013 | No CommentsIn the sixteenth century an accountant in the German city of Augsburg named Matthäus Schwarz was busy moving up the social circles, and he did it in part by knowing the latest fashions and dressing well. By 1541 he succeeded in becoming a member of the nobility. Now his efforts are being recreated in an experimental research project at the University of Cambridge. -
Reality and Truth in Thomas of York: Study and Text
Posted on March 10, 2013 | No CommentsThe investigation is conducted through a study of opposites into which being is divided. These opposites are principally the one and the many, potency and act, truth and falsity. -
How parasites went on Crusade
Posted on February 12, 2013 | No CommentsThe contents of crusader latrines are helping researchers probe the history of parasite infections in humans. -
Secret histories of illuminated manuscripts: the MINIARE project
Posted on January 20, 2013 | No CommentsSecret histories of illuminated manuscripts: the MINIARE project From the University of Cambridge An innovative project at the University of Cambridge will uncover some of the hidden histories of illuminated... -
Kaiserchronik – 12th century ‘Chronicle of Emperors’ to be published in landmark edition
Posted on July 30, 2012 | No CommentsOne of the most important historical works of the 12th-century, the Kaiserchronik, will be the focus of a £1 million project to create a new landmark new edition. -
Archaeologists discover 7th-century Anglo-Saxon teenager with golden cross
Posted on March 18, 2012 | No CommentsExtraordinary 7th century discovery on outskirts of Cambridge offers unique insights into the origins of English Christianity. -
Viking mass grave linked to elite killers of the medieval world
Posted on January 25, 2012 | No CommentsA mass grave found in Dorset could belong to a crew of Viking mercenaries who terrorised Europe in the 11th century – according to a new documentary on National Geographic which pieces together the story behind the burial. -
A Question of Fish: Graduates and their Monasteries in the Middle Ages
Posted on December 7, 2011 | No CommentsI would like to contend that the impact of monk graduates upon the shape of medieval monasticism was for most communities very much smaller than historians have tended to suggest. -
Beauty and brutality: Iceland’s literary landscapes
Posted on September 26, 2011 | No CommentsDr Emily Lethbridge is breathing new life and understanding into the centuries-old Sagas of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur) during a unique year-long research trip – conducted from the back of a decommissoned...