Medieval English for Dummies
A quick-and-dirty guide for would-be Time-travellers
What if the Arians had won? A Reformation historian reconsiders the Medieval Western Church
Diarmaid MacCulloch speculates on what Western Christianity would have been like in the perfectly plausible event of an Arian outcome to its emergence from the disappearance of the Western Roman Empire.
The Royal Residence at Tissø in the Viking Age
A 3D animation film visualizing the royal complex at the time around 900 AD.
Illuminating the Middle Ages
So what lies beyond King Arthur and the Round Table, and some bawdy poems by Chaucer? Is this a period that deserves to be better understood? Might medieval beliefs and attitudes to society, to mankind, to culture and literature offer insights into issues — from the relationship between church and state to the place of man in the universe — that still concern us today?
Late medieval choir stalls and the search for their maker
Christel Theunissen, a graduate student at Radboud University, has created this video introducing the research she is doing on medieval choir stalls.
How to Get Started in Digital History
Video from a Workshop at the 2014 American Historical Association Annual Meeting
Legendary Samurai – Videos on Art and Warfare in Medieval Japan
Three videos from the Portland Art Museum
How To Tweet From Another Century
Martha Bayless shares rune sticks from centuries past that illustrate how brief and personal everyday messages (exactly like tweets) — sometimes sharing ‘too much information’— are nothing new!
The power of charismatic art
So, there is a story from the Middle Ages about a monk, an esteemed monk, a serious man, who is an actual historical figure named Bernard of Clairvaux
Medieval Writing Surfaces: An Interview With Dr. Mary Watt
Dr. Mary Watt of the University of Florida talks about what people in the Middle Ages wrote on: parchment and vellum
On the windy edge of nothing: Vikings in the North Atlantic World
With a focus upon the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland, Kevin Edwards will present a select narrative of past and recent writings, archaeological enquiry and scientific research concerning the Norse settlement of the North Atlantic.
Great Houses Make Not Men Holy: Mendicant Architecture in Medieval Oxford
In 1538 King Henry the 8th ordered the dissolution be England’s religious houses. For much of the previous three centuries most prominent of these buildings in Oxford had belonged to the Dominican Order, or Blackfriars, and to the Grey Friars – the Franciscan Order.
The Great Transition: Climate, Disease and Society in the 13th and 14th Centuries
Across the Old World the late-thirteenth and fourteenth centuries witnessed profound and sometimes abrupt changes in the trajectory of established historical trends
Traveler’s Tips from the 14th Century: The Detours of Ibn Battuta
What advice can Ibn Battuta provide the globe-trotting public of the 21st century?
In the footsteps of the Norsemen
It was a land with plenty of opportunities when the Viking Erik the Red settled in Greenland over 1000 years ago.
Ancient and Medieval Climate Change and the Future of Humanity
Some examples of recent scientific and historical investigations of ancient and medieval climate demonstrate the power of combining scientific and traditional historical evidence.
Decentering history: local stories and cultural crossing in a global world
Natalie Zemon Davis’ lecture at the 2010 Ludwig Holberg Prize Symposium
Women, War, and Social Change in Armenia during the Mongol Domination
The Mongol conquest of Armenia precipitated social changes that were in motion since the late 10th-early 11th centuries, such as the dissolution of some princely houses, the realignment of others, as well as the rise of new ones.
The Crusades and the Lost Literature of the Italian Renaissance
Dr. Brian Jeffrey Maxson describes Biondo Flavio’s account of the Fourth Crusade
Nancy Marie Brown: The Song of the Vikings, Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths
Nancy Marie Brown gives a talk about her recent book The Song of Vikings, Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths
The Anti-Social Scholar (and how not to become one)
Julian Harrison about talks the British Library’s Medieval Manuscripts Blog
Holding it Straight: Sexual Orientation in the Middle Ages
Historians tend to be reticent about applying the phrase ‘sexual orientation’ to periods before the nineteenth century, but should we be so quick to dismiss the concept?
Fasting Girls: Then and Now
Fasting Girls: Then and Now Lecture by Joan Jacobs Brumberg Given at Cornell University, on February 16, 2012 Why do we hear about…
If Game of Thrones were a show about a Medieval Theme Park!
The people from Bad Lip Reading have created a very funny (if at times incomprehensible) video from Game of Thrones.
How Shall a Man Be Armed? Evolution of Armor during the Hundred Years War
Special presentation at the 2013 International Congress on Medieval Studies