The English way of war, 1360-1399
This thesis challenges the orthodox view that the years 1360 to 1399 witnessed a period of martial decline for the English.
New TV series: The Bastard Executioner
The first season of The Bastard Executioner begins on Tuesday, September 15th on the FX channel in the United States and Canada
Ten Castles that Made Medieval Britain: Warwick Castle
Raised amidst the settling dust of the Norman Conquest, the traditional seat of the Earldom of Warwick has continually throughout its millennia long and oft glorious history fundamentally reinvented itself, making it the Madonna of medieval military architecture.
The Medieval Magazine – Issue 33
This week we preview two new TV series set in the Middle Ages – The Bastard Executioner and The Last Kingdom – to see what they will be offering viewers.
The Medieval Magazine – Issue 6
One of the early issues of our digital magazine, it features a 23-page article examining the Crusades.
Book Review: Rise of the Wolf, by Steven A. McKay
Bottom line: I can’t recommend this novel strongly enough. You should buy it now.
Walking Tour of the Battle of Stamford Bridge
The Stamford Bridge Battlefield Walk takes place on the 26th September at 10:30am, a day after the battle would have taken place in 1066, and starts at Shallows Car Park, Stamford Bridge.
A Medieval Weather Report
What was England’s weather like in the year 1269?
Telling the Story of the Ivory Vikings
One book leads to the next. It’s a truism among writers, and particularly apt for explaining how my latest book, Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them, published by St Martin’s Press in September, came to be.
Rosh Hashanah in the Middle Ages
As the Jewish High Holy Days takes place, we take a look at how Jews celebrated Rosh Hashanah in the Middle Ages.
The Problem of Old Debts: Jewish Moneylenders in Northern Castile
Focusing especially on Jewish moneylending, the article explores economic relations between Jews and Christians in Northern Castile at the turn of the fourteenth century.
Teaching Tolkien’s Translations of Medieval Literature: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir Orfeo and Pearl
J.R.R. Tolkien, the medievalist who became the father of modern fantasy literature, translated many poems out of Old English, Old Norse and Middle English into carefully versified modern English
Wit and Wisdom from Medieval Monarchs
Here are ten quotes from medieval Kings and Queens that we wanted to share
The last rex crucesignatus, Edward I and the Mongol alliance
This study explores the crusading efforts of Edward I, King of England (1272– 1307), in the last decades of the thirteenth century.
American Medievalism: Medieval Reenactment as Historical Interpretation in the United States
This thesis will examine how the Middle Ages are historically interpreted and portrayed in the United States.
Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England
Jay Gates, Nicole Marafioti and Valerie Allen speak about Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England
The True Knight
What it takes to be a true knight! A wonderful cartoon short made by students at the University of Bournemouth
The earliest use of the F-word
An English historian has come across the word ‘fuck’ in a court case dating to year 1310, making it the earliest known reference to the swear word.
Call for Papers: Exploring the Fourteenth Century Across the Eastern and Western Christian World
Session at Leeds International Medieval Congress, 4-7 July 2016
Call for Papers: Death and Identity in Scotland from the Medieval to the Modern
Friday 29 January to Sunday 31 January 2016, at New College, University of Edinburgh
Florentine merchant companies established in Buda at the beginning of the 15th century
The scope of the present article is to analyze the activity of these merchant companies through various sources housed by the Florentine National Archives and place them in the context of Florentine long distance trade.
Anselm on Free Will
New book explores medieval philosopher’s contribution to current debate
‘Getting Medieval?’ The Middle Ages in Modern Politics
‘Ideas about the Middle Ages are indispensable to how we think about the modern world.’ – Louise D’Arcens
What do Cod Bones from the Mary Rose tell us about the global fish trade?
New stable isotope and ancient DNA analysis of the bones of stored cod provisions recovered from the wreck of the Tudor warship Mary Rose, which sank off the coast of southern England in 1545, has revealed that the fish in the ship’s stores had been caught in surprisingly distant waters
Cast of Bede’s skull rediscovered
‘The Skull of Bede’ exhibition opened yesterday at Bede’s World, Jarrow