Historian examines medieval grafitti at IMC
Scholars attending the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds heard today about the role of graffiti in the Middle Ages. In…
Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece restored
Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece The Virgin of the Rocks has gone back on display at the National Gallery in London, England, after 18…
Texas Medieval Association hosts 20th Annual Meeting in September
The Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Texas Medieval Association will be taking place this year at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, from September…
Historian Wins Grant for Study of Medieval Automata
Elly Truitt, Assistant Professor of History at Bryn Mawr College, has received a Scholar’s Award from the National Science Foundation to fund a…
Conservation work begins on the medieval village of Barforth
Urgent repairs to three buildings that are the last traces of a lost medieval village in the English county of Durham are now…
The Pontifical Academy of Archaeology celebrates its 200th anniversary
The Pontifical Academy of Archaeology in Rome will be celebrating its 200th anniversary this year. This video report discusses the work of the…
Isle of Man hosts Festival of Archaeology
The Isle of Man will be celebrating all things archaeological from July 17th to August 1st. The celebrations are to coincide with the…
Recession hurts efforts to preserve heritage buildings in England
English Heritage has published its annual Heritage at Risk Register today, which shows a significant slow-down in the number of historic buildings being…
Garima Gospels found to be oldest surviving Christian illustrated manuscripts
Radiocarbon testing has revealed that a pair of illustrated gospels kept in a remote monastery in Ethiopia may have been made as early…
Public asked to help created world’s largest archive on Anglo-Saxon England
An Oxford academic has challenged the public to help create the world’s largest archive of online material concerned with the Anglo-Saxons, after being…
Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages now published after 12-year project
A project to create a new reference work about the Middle Ages has just been completing with the publishing of the Oxford Dictionary…
12th-century Crusader fresco to go on display in Israel
An enormous Crusader-era fresco that was discovered in Jerusalem will go on display next month at the Israel Museum. At nine meters long…
International Medieval Congress to focus on Travel and Exploration
The International Medieval Congress (IMC), the largest academic conference in Great Britain, will be featuring some of the world’s finest medieval minds as they…
Textus Roffensis: Law, Language and Libraries in Early Medieval England – conference at the University of Kent
A three-day conference on the Textus Roffensis, the priceless 12th century Rochester Cathedral manuscript which was named Britain’s ‘Hidden Treasure’ by the British…
Medieval News Archive for January 2010
Here is the complete archive of news items from our Medieval News Blog for January 2010: Palaeography programme at King’s College London faces elimination…
Medieval News Archive for December 2009
Here is the complete archive of news items from our Medieval News Blog for December 2009 How the Byzantines dealt with Werewolves Grammar…
Medieval News Archive for November 2009
Here are the News items posted on our Medieval News Blog in November 2009 Victoria & Albert Museum unveils its Medieval and Renaissance…