Battle of the Nations – Day 2
The World Championships in Historical Medieval Battle – Battle of the Nations 2014 is taking place in Croatia from June 12-15.
Battle of the Nations 2014 – Day 1
Watch here the World Championships in Historical Medieval Battle!
London’s Medieval Pottery
Learn about the pottery discovered from medieval London with Jacqui Pearce of the Museum of London Archaeology.
Eight Videos about Beowulf
A selection of some of the most interesting videos on the web that talk about the Old English poem Beowulf:
Can History Help Us Think About Religious Conflicts?
Do the respective claims of the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic holy texts contribute to the violence between the various communities that read them? Or do they provide a basis for solidarity between the three Abrahamic religions?
Disbinding Some Manuscripts, and Rebinding Some Others
This paper will discuss the theory and practice of virtual disbinding, how to virtually disbind manuscripts in order to answer questions about how they were designed and built by their creators.
Why Study Heresy in the Later Middle Ages?
An interview of Dr. Rob Lutton by Tom O’Loughlin for the University of Nottingham’s Department of Theology and Religious Studies
Chivalry, Feudalism, and Source Criticism: The Writing of Medieval German Military History
A paper from the 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies
Videos on Medieval Stained Glass
These seven short videos explore topics around stained glass and its use in medieval churches.
Medieval Sculpture and Nuclear Science
This 1996 video demonstrates the use of neutron activation analysis to help determine the provenance (origin) of a fragment of medieval sculpture
The Medievalverse Roundtable from Kalamazoo
We talk about the 49th International Congress of Medieval Studies with John France, Elizabeth Koza and Danielle Trynoski.
Viking Winter Camps
Danielle Trynoski and Matthew Ziebarth talk about their project to locate previously unknown winter camps used by the Vikings during their raids into the British Isles and Western Europe
What if Arianism had won?
The fourth annual Princeton in Europe Lecture — Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch asks ‘What if Arianism had won?’
A Medieval Jewellery Set from the British Museum
Sue Brunning of the British Museum talks about a medieval jewellery set you can see at their new Early Medieval gallery.
The Battle of Clontarf – then and now
HistoryHub and University College Dublin have teamed up to create two-part video series to commemorate the 1000th anniversary of the Battle of Clontarf.
The Medievalverse from London
We give you an update from London, where we talk about some of the sites we have seen, including Westminster Abbey and the Tower of London. We also tell you about a few things coming up on Medievalists.net
Charlemagne and Europe
Jinty Nelson examines the long association between Charlemagne, King of the Franks and Christian emperor of the West, and Europe.
From Legible Text to Magical Pattern: Arabic Inscriptions in Muslim and Christian Spain
The Arabic inscriptions in this building fascinated me, and led me down a long path of research that continues today over a decade later. Today I will present some of that research, showing you some of the other structures and objects that are adorned with the same inscription.
The Ottonians and the Word: Gospel Books as Objects, Images, and Texts
I would like to consider issues of the material texts, literacy and the status of the written word in Ottonian Germany, as they coalesce at the site of deluxe liturgical manuscripts.
Baths of Bliss in the Middle Ages: Fact and Fiction
Medieval writers refer to baths in many contexts: spiritual (baptism), medical, erotic, didactic, comic, magical, dangerous – death in the bath was not uncommon.
Quasicrystals in Medieval Islamic Architecture
Quasicrystal patterns have remarkable properties: they do not repeat periodically, and have special symmetry—and were not understood in the West until the 1970s.
Enemies of the Faith: Western Christian Views of Jews and Muslims in the Middle Ages
When we deal with this kind of question it is easy to simply fall into the trap of regarding Muslims and Jews as simply others in the views of Western Europeans. But if you look at things more closely you realize that Western European Christians viewed Muslims and Jews rather differently
The Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem
This documentary takes a look at the Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem – one of the largest and greatest atlases ever assembled.
Reading Landscapes in Central Europe: A Documentary
The documentary focuses on crucial elements of the 2012 Workshop, depicting through participants’ footage the true side of wide-range survey and non-invasive methods of prospection.
Deceptive appearances? Reading medieval child monuments
Tomb effigies and monuments offer important evidence on how dead children were commemorated and thus also on the status of children in the Middle Ages.