Western Balts in the 10/11th – first half of the 13th centuries: After the Vikings and just before the Crusades
The questions of trans-regional contacts in the area of South-Eastern Baltic, comparative analysis of the statistical data of the Western Balts ornaments, arms, horse harness, ceramics, different tools and imported goods with some general features of burial rite, cemeteries based on social structure, contact zones and trade routes are described in the study.
What is an Irish clan?
This paper looks at the discussion to date of these terms by Irish historians and compares the data to some of the Scottish clan structures in the medieval period.
Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales in Middle English
Watch and listen to parts of The Canterbury Tales read in Middle English
Anniversaries, Feasts and Commemoration in the Middle Ages
The medieval ways of commemorating and celebrating, and what their purpose was.
Messages in Stone: Runic Carvings in North America and Oklahoma
More than 6,000 Runes are found worldwide, and present a history of Scandinavian life and exploration in the Medieval Age. This TedX lecture explores scholarly efforts to determine the authenticity of North American and Oklahoman stones, and popular television entertainment programs and corporate efforts to capitalize on a different story line.
Living by the Sea: Women, Work, and Family in Maritime Communities in Medieval England
I want to focus on how we can gender female the maritime world of ships, waterfronts, and coastal communities– a world that scholars have largely populated with adult males– focusing on four questions.
The World’s Earliest Dated Tide Mill
Thomas McErlean discusses the story of the discovery the earliest mill in Ireland and the earliest presently known example of a tide mill in the world.
Top 10 Medieval Videos of 2015
There are millions of videos about the Middle Ages being made each year – which ones are the best? We looked for ones that were interesting, educational and beautifully-filmed, and here is our top 10 list
The Supersizers Eat… Medieval
The Supersizers Eat… was a BBC television series about the history of food. Starring restaurant critic Giles Coren and comedian Sue Perkins, they produced a dozen episodes experiencing the food culture from ancient Rome to the roaring twenties.
Power and Politics at the time of King Harald Bluetooth, Denmark
He was the Harald that won for himself all of Denmark and Norway and made pagans Christian, and that is fairly easy to read, but what did he exactly say? What does it meant when he says he won for himself all of Denmark?
Heirs of Genghis Khan
It all begin in the year 1190 when Genghis Khan managed to bring together the different nomadic tribes of Mongolia in a single, powerful army of 200,000 men.
The Way of St. James (Camino de Santiago): The Temple of the Stars
A documentary about the famous pilgrimage route from the Middle Ages
If Books Could Talk: Medieval Manuscripts in Iowa
The paper, bindings, bookplates, repairs, stains, handwritten notes, stamps and markings all leave traces that give clues to how they were made, where they have been, and can even tell about the lives of the people who have read them. We’re finding clues and following up with research to find out more.
The Sick and The Dead: Medieval Concepts of Illness and Spinal Disability
There is an often erroneous idea that past societies were a) very sick, and b) didn’t care about the sick. This as I want to show is not the case. I will show examples of illness, but I also want to show that ideas of what is sick and what needs healing are not the same as our own.
Book Talk: Ivory Vikings, by Nancy Marie Brown
Nancy Marie Brown speaking on her new book Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them, at Cornell University on October 15, 2015
England’s Immigrants 1330-1550: Resident Aliens in the Later Middle Ages
Paper by Bart Lambert given at Medieval and Early Modern Records Seminar held in Leeds, on August 2, 2014
Animated Epics: The Canterbury Tales
A 1998 animated version of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
Medieval Animation: The Founding of Lithuania’s capital Vilnius
Created in 1990 by the Lithuanian Animated Film Studio, this film tells the mythological tale of the founding of Medieval Lithuanian capital Vilnius.
Walk this Way: Two Journeys to Jerusalem in the Fifteenth Century
This paper appraises place pilgrimage to Jerusalem in two late-medieval English texts: The Itineraries of William Wey and The Book of Margery Kempe.
Agincourt 1415 – 2015
Anne Curry talks about the myths and history of the Battle of Agincourt
Agincourt 1415: The Battle
What you haven’t got is an ordered advance – you’ve got complete and total chaos.
The Proud Symbolism of Heraldry: Why It Matters; Why It is Fun!
It is often regarded as an esoteric science and something for the snobs.
Researching Architectural History Through Archaeology: The Case of Westminster Abbey
For half a millennium, scholars have researched and written about the history and architecture of Westminster Abbey, using documents and visual inspection. One might therefore assume that the architectural history of this iconic building is well understood, and in some respects it is.
Teaching Math in the Middle Ages
Today I would like to talk about the places mathematics and mathematical pedagogy in particular appear in the Latin writing of the medieval world.
