Women in the Viking age : death, life after death and burial customs
My main interest is to find out if it is possible to get a unitary picture of beliefs concerned with the fate of the Viking women after death.
New App allows users to explore the archaeology of Wales
The new Archwilio App will now allow smartphone and tablet users to digitally explore over 100,000 archaeological records in Wales for the first time.
Lincoln Cathedral donates medieval manuscript facsimile to University of Lincoln
The original Thornton Manuscript, housed in Lincoln Cathedral’s medieval collection, is a body of secular, religious and medicinal texts compiled by Robert Thornton, a Yorkshire landowner, between 1430 and 1450.
New book examines Medieval Muslim Motherhood
Modern discourse often casts science and religion as bitter enemies. But if you were to rewind roughly 12 centuries, you would find at least one worldview in which the two domains were considered symbiotic.
Robin Hood: The Original Rebel With a Cause and Fundraising Mascot
By Danièle Cybulskie When we think about Robin Hood these days, we have him firmly placed in Sherwood Forest, outside of Nottingham, in…
Crossing boundaries: women’s gossip, insults and violence in sixteenth-century France
Using evidence from cases recorded in the registers of the consistories of southern France, the author investigates the way in which Languedocian women policed each other’s behaviour, enforcing a collective morality through gossip, sexual insult and physical confrontation.
Holding it Straight: Sexual Orientation in the Middle Ages
Historians tend to be reticent about applying the phrase ‘sexual orientation’ to periods before the nineteenth century, but should we be so quick to dismiss the concept?
Take a (Virtual) Tour of St.Andrew’s Cathedral in the year 1318
An Open Virtual Worlds project is allowing people in 2013 to go back nearly seven hundred years to explore one of Scotland’s most important medieval cathedrals.
The status of hwæt in Old English
What does hwæt actually mean?
Biblical nationalism and the sixteenth-century states
Biblical nationalism was new because pre-Reformation Europeans encountered the Hebrew Bible through paraphrases and abridgments. Full-text Bibles revealed a programmatic nationalism backed by unmatched authority as the word of God to readers primed by Reformation theology to seek models in the Bible for the reform of their own societies.
Major exhibit on the Vikings comes to the British Museum in 2014
In March 2014 the British Museum will be unveiling a new exhibition on The Vikings: Life and Legend.
Persian silk worn by Vikings, researcher finds
When the Oseberg Ship was discovered in Norway in 1904, more than one hundred silk fragments were found among its artefacts. New research has shown that these silks were probably purchased from Persia through a trade network.
Chaucer’s Solar Pageant: an Astrological Reading of the Canterbury Tales
This thesis proposes a correlation between the twenty-four Canterbury Tales and an external ordered system, namely the twelve signs of the zodiac, from which one might infer Chaucer’s intended ordering of the Tales.
How did Christians view the Rise of Islam?
When Muslim armies came out of Arabia in the 630s and 640s, Christian writers of the time saw it a sign that the Apocalypse had come.
Here comes the Hun again…
TSMorangles takes a look at the 1954 film Sign of the Pagan, starring Jack Palance as Attila and Jeff Chandler as Marcian.
Perceptions of insanity in medieval England
In a Christian society that perceived of a cosmic struggle between good and evil, madness was evidence of a battle lost.
Fasting Girls: Then and Now
Fasting Girls: Then and Now Lecture by Joan Jacobs Brumberg Given at Cornell University, on February 16, 2012 Why do we hear about…
Medieval Graffiti project wins national archaeology award
The Norfolk Medieval Graffiti Project, a volunteer led archaeology group that searches England’s medieval churches for early graffiti inscriptions, has been awarded the prestigious Marsh Community Archaeology Award.
The Flowers of Chivalry Slay Goliath. Defining and Confronting Evil in the Early Crusader Sources
This paper considers the definitions of evil in the twelfth- and early thirteenth-century sources of the crusades.