Life, Death, Fate and Female Embodiment: Weaving in Viking Age and Medieval Iceland
Video of a lecture on medieval Icelandic textiles.
The Battle of Maldon: The Lego Version
Director and narrated by David Waugh of DTG Productions, it retells The Battle of Maldon, an Anglo-Saxon poem that describes a battle that took place on 10 August 991
The History of English in Ten Minutes
Learn where words like house, loaf, bishop, font, drag, die, jury, justice, swine, mutton, pork, eyeball and alligator came from!
The Children of Ash: Cosmology and the Viking Universe
What I am really going to be talking about throughout these lectures is stories, the power of stories, and the role that narrative played in the life of the Vikings, its influence on their perception of the world in which they understood themselves to move.
The Hobbit; an unexpected theological journey
Dr Alison Milbank of the University of Nottingham’s Department of Theology and Religious Studies, offers her insights into J.R.R.Tolkien and his famous novel.
Why Study J.R.R. Tolkien?
In order to write a fantasy novel you have to commit to metaphysics – you have to create a world, that world has to have a certain consistency, it has to have ontology, what is being in that world, what is it ethics in that world – and Tolkien is particular interested in these metaphysical questions.
Tolkien’s Imaginary Languages
Tolkien’s extensive knowledge of world languages both ancient and modern lent itself to his creation of the artificial languages that add so much realistic depth to his fictional writing
Old Bones: Possible Richard III remains and DNA link found
What she found was the skeleton of a body with scoliosis, a curved spine, much like historical descriptions of King Richard. But in order to determine if the remains are indeed his, scientists must now compare the DNA of the remains with that of Richard’s living descendent—Canadian Michael Ibsen.
Servants’ Tales at Twelfth-Century English Shrines
Using the stained glass windows of Canterbury Cathedral, Koopmans examines how they show the lay people, including servants, more informal helpers and hangers on, and how they correspond to textual references to what the laity did at shrines.
In It for the Money: The Birth of Commercial Book Production
This lecture introduces the main players of this world of medieval book commerce — parchment makers, paid scribes, illuminators, shopkeepers — and discusses why these traditionally separate professions blended into a closely knit community that stands at the cradle of our bookish world today.
Holy Land, Holy Bones, Holy Image: Byzantine Pilgrimage Art
In Christianity that’s when pilgrimage, sacred bones, holy people and holy places were defined. That’s when the rules were set, and the rules that were sent in those three centuries are the same rules that apply now, and that is same crucible of time and location out of which emerged the icon
Publishing your Research in Archaeology Journals
Part 1: How NOT to get Published in Archaeology, by Robin Skeates; Part 2: How to write a book review, by Estella Weiss‐Krejci
The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis
Discover what the Isle of Lewis chessmen can tell us about the development of chess as both a game and an art form.
Medieval Food – Come Dine with St. Patrick
Ireland in the 5th century: No restaurants, no take-aways, no street vendors or pre-prepared meals.
St Augustine Was Eaten by a Bear: Book Production in Carthusian Monasteries
So stop reading and lets think about physical appearance: what does it look like, what does it feel like, what does it smell like.
The Medievalverse – Boston 2012 – Day 2
Our second day at Boston focused exclusively on The Haskins Society Conference – we talk about some of our favourite papers of the day.
The Medievalverse – Boston 2012 – Day 1
We are in Boston, Massachusetts to cover two history conferences: The Haskins Society Conference and the 38th Byzantine Studies Conference.
The Black Death – lecture by Sir Richard J. Evans
In this series of six lectures I want to look at some of the great diseases and their relationship to human history.
Two University of Chicago Humanists and a Landmark Edition of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
Partly thanks to their experience as code-breakers in World War I, theirs was the first edition to take account of all 83 medieval witnesses to parts or the whole of the Tales.
Falconry in Jewish Art, Law, and Lore
When I explain that I am studying the topic of Falconry in Rabbinic Literature, people are usually bewildered, or just plain shocked. ‘Jewish hunting? Is that Kosher? Are there really any sources?’
Video of the Richard III discovery Press Conference
This press conference, announcing the discovery of human remains in the search for Richard III, was held in Leicester Guildhall on 12 September 2012.
Devotion to the Name of Jesus in Medieval England
Denis Renevey discusses the medieval mystic tradition from the 11th century to the Reformation, the significance of the name of Jesus during this period, and its impact on religious attitudes in the Middle Ages.
Monastic Vernacularities – Syon Abbey Society session at the International Congress on Medieval Studies
Video of three papers given at the International Congress on Medieval Studies
Medieval Fishing at Gufuskálar, Snæfellsnes, Iceland
Recent excavations at the site of Gufuskálar on the far western tip of Iceland’s Snæfellsnes peninsula are attempting to rescue valuable archaeological information from a quickly eroding coastline.
The Making of Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae
Bernard McGinn explores Thomas’s reason for writing the Summa and its principles, structure, and originality.