The True Knight
What it takes to be a true knight! A wonderful cartoon short made by students at the University of Bournemouth
‘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
Anglo Saxon House: A Reconstruction
Four videos from Woodlands.co.uk on how trees were used in the Middle Ages
The Newport Medieval Ship in Context: The Life and Times of a 15th Century Merchant Vessel Trading in Western Europe
This paper presents a summary of recent research into the broader economic, cultural and political world in which the Newport Medieval Ship was built and operated.
Between Subjects and Citizens: the Commons of England, c. 1300-1550
The political, social and cultural conditions of later medieval England fostered a situation in which ordinary people could have remarkable political agency.
Landlord of England, not King? Reinterpreting the Reign of Richard II
Mark King is a PhD student in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge working on the political history of Richard II’s reign.
How did medieval seafarers turn trees into boat parts?
In this video, Professor Jon Adams of the University of Southampton explains the techniques by which shipwrights have converted the trees of the forest into the components of the boats in which people eventually sailed around the world.
Horn Iconography as Found in the Grand Medieval Bestiary
Given at the 47th International Horn Symposium, on August 4, 2015
The Diverse Pedagogies of Medievalism
This roundtable explored some of the many pedagogies of medievalism in the modern academy. To what purposes is medievalism taught, and how? Using what texts and in what contexts?
Hildegard’s Cosmos and Its Music: Making a Digital Model for the Modern Planetarium
The work reported on in this talk is a collaborative effort involving forces performative, scholarly, and technological. Because of the way Hildegard describes her understanding of the cosmos in the treatise Scivias, the model unfolds in two acts.
Maria the Prophetess: Mother of Alchemy
One of the first female scientists, Maria, the Jewess also referred to as Maria the Prophetissa and Maria, Sister of Moses, whose inventions and designs of equipment are used in laboratories today.
Crash Course: Middle Ages
Watch the medieval history videos created by Crash Course
Inside Lincoln Cathedral
A behind the scenes look at Lincoln Cathedral
What Does Normal Look Like?
Thomas Hoccleve was a fifteenth-century clerk and poet who suffered a mental breakdown around 1416. In his poem, which we now call Hoccleve’s Compleint, he describes his depression and anxiety about not being able to convince his friends and co-workers that he has recovered.
How I Built an Information Time Machine
Frederic Kaplan shows off the Venice Time Machine, a project to digitize 80 kilometers of books to create a historical and geographical simulation of Venice across 1000 years
Routier Perrinet Gressart: Joan of Arc’s Penultimate Enemy
Even my English medievalist colleagues, however reluctantly, must admit that Joan of Arc played a significant role in the Hundred Years War.
How to Speak Middle English
This four-part series of videos created by Youtuber Thatoneguyinlitclass gives a quick guide to speaking in Middle English.
Medieval Parchment: Sewing Lines and Growing Surfaces
Talks about growing a medieval parchment by stitching in items to it.
Cuthbert, Guthlac and the Life of St Antony
Christians far from Egypt have drawn inspiration from the Life of St Antony, including England’s two most popular pre-Conquest hermit saints
Henry III and Magna Carta 1225
Now at the end of 1215 you would have thought this charter was a failure, without a future. Why is that?
Magna Carta: How relevant to Australia and Human Rights?
How was it that this Latin inscribed sheepskin parchment became anything more than a minor foot note in English history? Why is Magna Carta today recognized as the foundational document of English constitutional law and the symbol of liberty and freedom throughout the English-speaking world?
Game of Thrones – East and West, Constantinople and Rome, Emperor and Bishop
The following is a tale of the struggle between the Emperors of Constantinople and the the Bishops of Rome
Caterina Sforza’s Experiments with Alchemy
She collected over four hundred alchemical, medicinal, and cosmetic recipes, and corresponded with other alchemical adepts about materials and laboratory techniques.
‘Such a great multitude’: Biblical numerology as a literary device in Nauigatio Sancti Brendani
This presentation will begin by briefly summarizing the text, presenting evidence for its intended audience and purpose, defining Biblical numerology and outlining its role in Jewish and Christian textual traditions up to the early medieval period. Then the presentation will provide a handful of examples in the use of Biblical numerology in Nauigatio.