Winthrop University begins offering Medieval Studies minor
Undergraduate students attending Winthrop University in South Carolina can now study for a new minor program: medieval studies. Approved in April 2009, the…
Professor Peter Mack appointed Director of Warburg Institute
Peter Mack, Professor of English at the University Warwick, has been appointed as the new Director of the Warburg Institute at the University…
The Pillars of the Earth – the Amplified Edition
The Amplified Edition of Ken Follett’s international bestselling novel The Pillars of the Earth has been released by Penguin Books and Starz. It…
Checkmate! Medieval People at Play – Manuscript Exhibition Examines Aspects of Play in Medieval Society
We are all familiar with praying monks, but playing monks? A Book of Hours from Flanders finds them deep in a game of “Blind…
York’s Barley Hall celebrates 650th anniversary
It’s survived the Black Death, a siege during England’s civil war and second world war air raids and still the medieval Barley Hall…
The English Parish Church through the Centuries
A new digital resource created by the University of York has been released which will provide teaching and learning resources about the history…
New light on Leonardo Da Vinci’s faces
How did Leonardo Da Vinci manage to paint such perfect faces? For the first time a quantitative chemical analysis has been done on…
More videos on the 600th Anniversary of the Battle of Grunwald
Various media outlets have been covering the ceremonies and events marking the Battle of Grunwald, which was fought in 1410 in present-day Poland.
York Archaeological Trust hopes to win award
The Hollywood Oscars are still a few months away but the York Archaeological Trust is waiting with bated breath to hear whether it has…
Poland celebrates 600th anniversary of the Battle of Grunwald
The county of Poland is marking the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Grunwald, which helped to secure the country’s independence, with various…
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…