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
The Black Death in the Middle East and Europe
I specifically look at England and Egypt as case studies and I’m really gonna talk more about Egypt here.
Dragon Harald Fairhair: The construction of a Viking Dragon Ship
A ten-minute video on the construction of a Viking dragon ship, which began in 2010 and is the largest Viking ship ever built in modern times.
Not One Chance in a Thousand: How the Cloisters came to be
Timothy Husband, curator, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters at the Museum talks about how the Cloisters came to be.
How Machiavellian was Machiavelli?
Professor Quentin Skinner gave a public lecture at the University of York, on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the composition of Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince.
The Middle Ages in the Modern World: Terry Jones and Patrick Geary
Filmed at the British Academy in London on July 1, 2013
Murder, Mayhem and a very small Penis
On a Friday evening in the spring of 1375, William Cantilupe, a knight of the relatively young age of thirty and the great-great-nephew of St Thomas of Hereford, was murdered by members of his household.
Aliens in Medieval Southampton
A student documentary on alien merchants in medieval Southampton
Medieval Books of Hours in the Public Library of Bruges
A documentary created by the Public Library of Bruges about their collection
Magic and the Occult in Islam: Ahmad al-Buni (622H/1225CE?) and his Shams Al-Ma’arif
Lecture by Saiyad Nizamuddin Ahmad, American University in Cairo
The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts
Six hundred years ago Christians who went to church and they learned to to destroy manuscripts.
Top Ten ‘Medieval’ Commercials
Using the Middle Ages is always a good way to sell stuff! Here are our top ten commercials that have something medieval in them.
Life and death in late ancient and early medieval Egyptian monasteries
Since 2006, Stephen Davis has served as Executive Director of the Yale Monastic Archaeology Project, conducting field work and training graduate students at two sites in Egypt: the White Monastery near Sohag and the Monastery of John the Little in Wadi al-Natrun.
Maurizio Seracini: The secret lives of paintings
Engineer Maurizio Seracini spent 30 years searching for Leonardo da Vinci’s lost fresco ‘The Battle of Anghiari,’ and in the process discovered that many paintings have layers of history hidden underneath.
The city of walls: Constantinople
The world owes much of its cultural legacy to Constantinople’s walls. When Constantinople was under siege by neighboring enemies, the Roman city’s elaborate system of moats, outer walls, and inner walls stood tall.
Distorting Madonna in Medieval Art
After Rome was destroyed, people were wary of attachment to physical beauty. As Christianity gained traction, Romans instead began to focus on the metaphysical beauty of virtue, and art began to follow suit. James Earle discusses how Medieval paintings of Madonna were affected by this shift.
Reconstruction of a Judicial Duel c. 1400
Watch this demonstration of a judicial duel at the turn of the 15th century, presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in 2013
Is the Past a Foreign Country?
People tend to overemphasize similarities and ignore differences when comparing the present with the past, says Suzannah Lipscomb.
Chasing Krüger’s Dream: Studying the Transmission of Classical and Medieval Manuscripts Using Lattice Theory and Information Entropy
New computational techniques show how modern digital philology is changing the way we think of the transmission of medieval manuscripts through space and time.
Charity in the Middle Ages
Lecture by Valerie L. Garver, given at Northern Illinois University on April 3, 2013