Ten Great Animated Shorts about the Middle Ages
We found these ten wonderful animated short films that offer their own unique look at the Middle Ages.
Building Medieval Plate Armor: An Operator’s Guide
The subject was how understanding the design and function of real medieval plate armor can help someone build their own suit of armor in a more historically accurate and properly functional way.
Cut, Chop and Thrust: The Sword through Millennia
Igor and Phillip talk about the history of the European Sword, including its technology, design, rituals, traditions, symbols, social and religious meanings.
The Archaeology of St Paul’s Cathedral
Recent work has brought together what we know of the Anglo-Saxon and medieval cathedrals beneath and around Wren’s St Paul’s, the City of London’s most important historic building and monument.
How to Make a Medieval Costume in Under Four Minutes
Luke Seinen shows how to make a medieval costume in under 4 minutes! Just in case you needed something to wear for Halloween. Plus more videos on medieval costumes and looks.
De Herinacio. On the Hedgehog
Obrazki nunu and Discarding Images have teamed up to create a great video based on a medieval bestiary.
John Skelton’s ‘Speke Parott’
Just four days after this video was posted to Youtube, nearly 130 000 people have watched a reading of the Middle English poem Speke Parott.
Scholars, Teachers and Students in Early Medieval Europe: Towards a Total Network
This talk, part of a larger project, is concerned with intellectuals (scholars, teachers and their students) active in the late eighth through ninth centuries, a period usually referred to as the Carolingian Renaissance.
The Lover’s Confession: Three Tales by John Gower
Sarah Higley, from the University of Rochester, created this film based on three stories from Confessio Amantis: The Travelers and the Angel, The Tale of Machaire and Canace, and The Tale of Florent.
Odorico from Pordenone and his encounter with China (1318-1330)
Odorico from Pordenone was a Franciscan Friar, who made a journey from Venice to Peking in the first half of the fourteenth century
Teaching Out of the Box: Creating a Lesson about the Black Death
A team of teachers is challenged to produce an imaginative and exciting lesson on medieval history inspired by objects given to them in a box.
The Royal Palaces of England
Three video lectures by Dr Simon Thurley that links architecture, court life and politics to paint an intimate picture of everyday life in the palaces of the English monarchy.
Rethinking medieval spaces in digital environments
Many digital websites and archives of medieval spaces and its objects are not only informed by what we might call a post-romantic notion of aesthetics, they also excise crucial dimensions of medieval materiality and performativity such as touch, smell, movement and sound.
The Art of War in the Middle Ages
Christopher Berg, Professor of History at Keiser University offers this overview of medieval military history, focusing on Byzantine warfare.
What’s Happening in Medieval Archaeology this Summer
Here are some videos posted this summer about archaeological work currently taking place that involves medieval finds.
The Reenactors: A Documentary on Medieval reenactors
We are visiting the medieval fair on Gotland. Here we find people dedicating mostly of their spare time to as accurate as possible recreate medieval life. What makes them want to do that? Is it geeks escaping reality or a proper presentation of researched history? Or maybe a little bit of both?
Britain and the beginning of Scotland
In this lecture Professor Dauvit Broun explores recent rethinking on Scottish origins by discussing the role of Britain as an ‘idea’, connections with England, the emergence of Scotland as a country in the 13th century, and the beginnings of the Scottish kingdom itself.
Greenland Norse Knowledge of the North Atlantic
What did the Norse know about climate, and what was the role of driftwood in their lives?
Michelangelo, Copernicus and the Sistine Chapel
A detailed examination of the themes, motifs and secrets held with Michelagelo’s masterpiece.
1295: The Year of the Galleys
This lecture is about an extraordinary set of English shipbuilding accounts dating from the 1290s, when the ports of London, Southampton, Ipswich, York, Newcastle and other places constructed eight war galleys for King Edward I.
Discovering Law: Hayekian Competition in Medieval Iceland
From the start, Icelandic society operated with well-developed concepts of private property and law, but, in an unusual combination, it lacked most of the formal institutions of government which normally protect ownership and enforce judicial decisions
Asteriscos et obelos suis locis restitui – the revision of the Psalter during the Carolingian Renaissance
Today, I would like to discuss one type of early medieval psalter and the one feature that discerns this type – and that is the presence of critical signs.
The Medieval Understandings of Participation
Richard Cross, Stephen Gersh and Douglas Hedley speaking at the University of Notre Dame
The After Lives of Byzantine Art
In this lecture I will look at the ways in which Byzantine art was used at both ends of the Byzantine world. I will consider how we define art as ‘Byzantine’ and the ways in which the afterlives of these artworks have been manipulated, rewritten and reinterpreted in various settings.
Did Halley’s Comet Convert the Irish to Christianity?
Many attribute the spread of Christianity in Ireland to St. Patrick. But Medieval history and scientific evidence dating back to 540 A.D. hint at a more cosmic reason.