New Medieval Books: Islam in Europe
A catalogue that showcased the exhibition ‘Islam in Europe’ held at the Sam Fogg gallery in London in 2023. It details over 60 items that were part of the exhibition ranging from ceramics to carpets.
Where the Middle Ages Begin
A catalogue that showcased the exhibition ‘Islam in Europe’ held at the Sam Fogg gallery in London in 2023. It details over 60 items that were part of the exhibition ranging from ceramics to carpets.
The Welsh government is investing £10 million project towards the conversation and restoration of Caerphilly Castle, one of the great castles built by King Edward I. The project aims to make the site a world-class visitor attraction while preserving its history.
Mainz University Library will be digitizing 462 medieval manuscripts over the next three years. The manuscripts, which can be found in the German cities of Speyer, Worms and Mainz, have over 170,000 pages.
Archaeologists working near the site of Memleben Abbey in Germany have discovered the remains of a medieval village. Two buildings, a church and a residential building, have already been unearth.
Architectural representation in late medieval manuscript illumination By Sarah McKinnon Transactions of the Third Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians (University of Western…
The Traitor’s Tale (Dame Frevisse Series) By Margaret Frazer Berkley Prime Crime ISBN: 0425213706 Dame Frevisse of St. Frideswide’s nunnery is in…
The Three Kings of Cologne By Kate Sedley Severn House ISBN: 0727864815 Alderman John Foster wishes to give his home city of…
Storyteller By G.R. Grove Lulu.com ISBN: 143030524X “Blood and fire, gold and steel and poetry, a river’s voice in the silence of…
Stolen Away By Christopher Dinsdale Napoleon Publishing ISBN: 1894917200 For young adults. Keira, kidnapped from her home in Ireland by the Viking…
The Silver Cup Constance Leeds Viking ISBN: 0670061573 For young adults: It’s the year 1095, and fifteen-year-old Anna longs for a different…
The Religion: A Novel By Tim Willocks Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN: 0-374-24865-6 The Religion is the first book of the Tannhauser Trilogy. …
A Mortal Glamour By Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Juno Books ISBN: 0-8095-5794-0 A dark tale of obsession, possession, and passion set in the tumultuous…
Mistress of the Art of Death: A Novel By Ariana Franklin Putnam ISBN: 0399154140 In medieval Cambridge, four children have been murdered.…
Midnight Eyes Sarah Brophy Zebra Books ISBN: 0821780948 A medieval historical romance set in England during the reign of William…
1212: Year of the Journey By Kathleen McDonnell Second Story Press ISBN: 1-897187-11-4 For young adults: In a world where thousands are dying over…
Ysabel By Guy Gavriel Kay In this exhilarating, moving new work, Guy Gavriel Kay casts brilliant light on the ways in which…
Examines the invention and development of the Windmill in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, including how these machines worked. Further discussion is given on the use of windmills in England during the early fourteenth century.
Crusades: Destruction is the fourth part of the Crusades with Terry Jones series. Terry Jones reports on how Richard the Lionheart set out…
Crusades: Jihad is the third part of Crusades with Terry Jones. He describes how the crusaders lost Jerusalem in 1144 to Zengi, the…
Crusades: Jerusalem is the second part of the Crusades with Terry Jones. In this episode, the narrator sets out on the 1000-mile walk…
For more than 1,000 years, the Byzantine Empire was the eye of the entire world – the origin of great literature, fine art…
Wu Zhao: China’s Only Woman Emperor By N. Harry Rothschild Longman, ISBN: 978-0-321-39426-2 Wu Zhao, Woman Emperor of China is the account of the…
Despite these fertile pre-conditions, the biological fact that Wu Zhao was a woman presented serious problems in her effort to assume the dragon throne. Even in these open times, the Confucian bureaucracy held great political sway just as patriarchal values, which held to the principle that “the male is venerated and the female is denigrated” (nan zun nu bei 男尊女卑), still exerted tremendous social influence.
Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy By Charles Wendell David Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1920 This book covers the life of Robert Curthose, son…
A 24-page lecture from 1915 about a little known burglary of King Edward I’s treasure room in 1303. There remains some mystery of who did it, this real-life story has drama, interesting characters, scandal, cover-up, and provides a sense and feel of the times from a ground-up perspective. Includes a hand-drawn map and two relevant manuscript pages.
Here are list of travel videos featuring the city of Florence (Firenze), Italy.
In view of the ill-fated attempt of Geheimrat Bode to acquire, in the wax bust of the Flora, a real Leonardo for the Berlin Museum, writers have become more chary in attempting to assign works of sculpture to that artist.
Kiev and Constantinople: Cultural Relations before the Thirteenth Century By Zinaida V. Udal’cova The Seventeenth International Byzantine Congress, Main Papers (New York, 1986) …
The Background to Mantzikert By Cyril Toumanoff The Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Congress of Byzantine Studies (London, 1967) Click here to read/download…
A catalogue that showcased the exhibition ‘Islam in Europe’ held at the Sam Fogg gallery in London in 2023. It details over 60 items that were part of the exhibition ranging from ceramics to carpets.
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.