Why do we sleep? Scientific Questions Answered in the Sixth Century
The Byzantine philosopher Priscian of Lydia offers these answers to some common questions.
Where the Middle Ages Begin
The Byzantine philosopher Priscian of Lydia offers these answers to some common questions.
It was around the year 600 that burials changed in England. A new study reveals that it was during this time that people altered where and how they buried their dead.
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.
While some people might be interested in castles that have been kept up-to-date and in good condition, others may want to buy a…
The Norman conquest of Sicily, completed by 1091, shifted the largest Mediterranean island away from the sphere of influence of the eastern Maghrib, integrating it into a new Latin Christian framework.
Using Internet Resources for Researching Religious History: the Dominican Order in Medieval Spain as Case Study By Rita Ríos de la Llave Bridging the…
Visualising Urban Space: Rome’s Late Medieval Iconography from a Media Historical Perspective By Marco Vencato Power and culture : new perspectives on spatiality in…
Revolt and the Manipulation of Sacral and Private Space in 12th-Century Laon and Bruges By Jeroen Deploige Power and culture : new perspectives on…
Venice-Babylon: Foreigners and Citizens in the Renaissance Period (14th-16th Centuries) By Ludivine-Julie Olard Imaging frontiers, contesting identities, edited by Steven G. Ellis and Lud’a…
The Ethnic Composition of Medieval Epirus By Brendan Osswald Imaging frontiers, contesting identities, edited by Steven G. Ellis and Lud’a Klusáková (Pisa University Press,…
INTERVIEW WITH CASTLE WALL PRODUCTIONS Castle Wall Productions is a theatrical troupe based in Colorado. They specialize in delivering performances set in the…
Metaphysics and Translating. An Exodus-quotation in Medieval Vernacular Literature By Edit Anna Lukács Skepsi, Vol.1:1 (2008) Introduction: The Middle Ages offer a unique point…
The Anglo-Norman Civil War of 1101 Reconsidered By Neil Strevitt Anglo-Norman Studies v.24 (2004) Introduction: In July 1101, Robert Curthose, duke of Normandy…
From the 12th to the 17th centuries, however, the English monarchy adapted and exploited the theory in its dealings with the neighbouring Christian peoples of the British Isles, denigrating the Irish, Scots, and Welsh as primitive savages and barbarians
Sweet Civility and Barbarous Rudeness: a View from the Frontier. Abbot Ailred of Rievaulx and the Scots By William M. Aird Imaging frontiers, contesting…
Clustering a medieval social network by SOM using a kernel based distance measure By Nathalie Villa and Romain Boulet Proceedings of ESANN 2007 (Bruges,…
Jean d’Arras and Couldrette: Political Expediency and Censorship in Fifteenth-Century France By Matthew W. Morris Postscript, Vol.18-19 (2002) Introduction: The romance of Melusine is one…
The Seljuks of Rum in Turkish Republican Nationalist Historiography By Dogan Gurpinar MA Thesis, Sabanci University, 2004 Abstract: This study investigates how Seljuks of Rum…
In the following video, Robert Smith and other team members examine the effectiveness of various gunpowder recipes found in medieval manuscripts.
Islamic archaeology in the Iberian peninsula and Morocco By Johnny De Meulemeester Antiquity, Vol.79:306 (2005) Abstract: The author reviews the development of Islamic archaeology in…
Chepstow Castle The castle is high on a cliff above the River Wye, as it guards one of the main river crossings from…
The Muhtasib as Guardian of Public Morality in the Medieval Islamic City By Abbas Hamdani Digest of Middle East Studies, Vol.17:1 (2008) Introduction: the ancient…
The Economic Role of the State in the Classical Islamic Literature: The Views of Ibn Taimiyah By Bassam Abu Al-Foul, and Mohamed Soliman Digest of…
The aim of this paper is to suggest that married life in Renaissance Italy was much more violent than the current historiography allows.
By the close of the fourteenth century, Siena, once an expanding medieval Italian commune, was declining almost as quickly as she had risen.
The relationship between the private house and the environment of public space in the Italian city underwent a fundamental reordering in the late Middle Ages.
Labor Use and Landlord Control: Sharecropping and Household Structure in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany By Rebecca Jean Emigh The Journal of Historical Sociology, Vol.11:1 (1998)…
English and Galician in the Middle Ages: A Sociohistorical Survey By Begoña Crespo García Revista Alicantina de Estudios Inglese, No.17 (2004) Introduction: It is the…
A double biography of two of the most important scholars from the Middle Ages. Working out of Central Asia in the 11th century, Ibn Sina and Biruni both made significant impacts on several scientific fields.
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.