Medieval Fish with Richard Hoffmann
This week on The Medieval Podcast, Danièle speaks with Richard Hoffmann about what people were eating, how they caught it, and how fish farming evolved over time.
Where the Middle Ages Begin
This week on The Medieval Podcast, Danièle speaks with Richard Hoffmann about what people were eating, how they caught it, and how fish farming evolved over time.
In 1495, the Danish warship Gribshunden sank off the coast of Sweden. In recent years, researchers have dived to explore the wreck and have made several important discoveries.
Archaeologists from Newcastle University have unearthed evidence for an evolving sacred landscape spanning centuries in Eastern England.
Byzantine bullion fuelled Europe’s revolutionary adoption of silver coins in the mid-7th century, only to be overtaken by silver from a mine in Charlemagne’s Francia a century later, new tests reveal. The findings could transform our understanding of Europe’s economic and political development.
The festival of Brigit the Holy Woman By Séamas Ó Catháin Celtica Vol. 23 (1999) Introduction: In her monumental The Festival of Lughnasa,…
Imitatio basilei? The ideological and political construction of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily in the 12th century By Stergios Laitsos The Eastern Roman…
Anglo-Saxon Wills and the Inheritance of Tradition By Michael Drout Selim Vol. 10 (2000) Introduction: In his will, which dates from between 931 and…
Far from Barbaric: Re-assessing the Sophistication of Merovingian Metalworking By Robert M. Ehrenreich, Elizabeth Hamilton, and Samuel K. Nash JOM, Vol. 57:8 (2005)…
What does it mean to be part man, part beast? In the Middle Ages, writers were struggling with the same questions.
Over 4400 pounds of copper coins dating back to the Song Dynasty were uncovered earlier this week by construction workers digging in a…
Hygelac’s only daughter: a present, a potentate and a peaceweaver in Beowulf By Alaric Hall Studia Neophilologica, Vol.78:1 (2006) Introduction: The women of…
Ideology, Prosody, and Eponymy: Towards a Public Poetics of Obama and Beowulf By Tom Clark Nebula: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship, Vol.7:1-2 (2010)…
Although it depicts a Germanic warrior culture of nearly 1,500 years ago, the Old English epic poem Beowulf contains timely insights into leadership and motivation, trust, respect, loyalty, and sacrifice that could inform current leadership practice and teaching
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Retrospective of Comparative Historical Sociology of Empire By Zenonas Norkus World Political Science Review, Vol.3 No.4 (2007)…
By Owen Jarus It is now thirty years since clerics, who live on the island [Thule] from the first of February to the…
Mystical Theology: The Glosses by Thomas Gallus and the Commentary of Robert Grosseteste on “De Mystica Theologia” Edited and translated by James McEvoy…
Dante and Medicine: The Circle of Malpractice By Pasquale Accardo Southern Medical Journal, Vol. 82:5 (1989) Introduction: Dante’s Commedia is a literary epic…
Attitudes Toward Nutrition and Health in the Ancient North By David Robertson Southern Medical Journal, Vol.71:12 (1978) Introduction: Medieval Scandinavia was a culture…
Did you know that the Emerald Isle attracted swarms of eager foreign students, principally from England, to its monastic schools as early as the seventh century?
Pilgrims and Crusaders in Western Latin Sources By Jonathan Riley-Smith Byzantines and Crusaders in Non-Greek Sources, 1025-1204: Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume…
BIBLICAL JUDITH IN THE IDEOLOGY OF QUEENSHIP OF THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES Pac, Grzegorz (University of Warsaw, Poland) Quest, Issue 6, Spring (2009)…
THE LIFE OF ST RUADÁN AND THE CURSING OF TARA Szacillo, Judyta (Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland) Quest, Issue 6, Spring (2009)…
The Alfredian Project and its Aftermath: Rethinking the Literary History of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries By Malcolm Godden Proceedings of the British…
Saint-Making in Early Iceland By Bernadine McCreesh Scandinavian-Canadian Studies, Vol.17 (2006-7) Abstract: This article examines briefly the lives of Iceland’s earliest candidates for…
Orality and the Satiric Tradition in “The Pardoner’s Tale” By Luis Alberto Lázaro Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Spanish Society…
THE BIRTH OF SACRIFICE: ICONOGRAPHIC METAPHORS FOR SPIRITUAL REBIRTH IN MASTER MATTHIAS’ ISENHEIM ALTARPIECE Anderson Tuft, Katherine Master of Arts Thesis, Brigham Young University (December…
The purpose of this study was, first, to explore the basic elements of Marian devotion, and, second, to examine how veneration of Mary was expressed musically.
William of Malmesbury on Pagan Slavic Oracles: New Sources for Slavic Paganism and its two Interpretations Słupecki, Leszek Paweł Zaroff, Roman Studia Mythologica Slavica,…
Breikocher Josef: The Medieval Origins of a Grotesque Comic Motif in the German Christmas Play By Martin W. Walsh Paper presented at the 2004…
A history of this Egyptian metropolis from its founding by Alexander the Great to our own day. Close to a hundred pages are devoted to the medieval era.
For anyone who visits Örebro, it is hard to miss its castle – an ancient-looking fortress made of weathered grey stones that stands on an islet in the middle of the city centre.
On the 10th of August 1628, the Vasa sank in Stockholm harbour, thus ending the career of the most powerful warship that Sweden had ever seen.
This strategic location not only makes the castle a majestic sight, but also earns it the reputation as the most modern defence fortress in its time. But, as all ancient buildings, there is always more than meets the eye. Here are the five things that you may not know about Uppsala Castle.
How do you operate a business when you can’t read and your knowledge of math is extremely limited? Making your mark on the…
Narbonne is one of those European cities with evidence of its past on every street.
The V&A Museum opened its latest medieval exhibit exhibit on Saturday: Opus Anglicanum: Masterpieces of English Medieval Embroidery. I had the opportunity to see it opening day and it was spectacular.