Medievalists.net’s Featured Book: The Crusader Strategy
The Medievalists.net Monthly Book Selection for March is The Crusader Strategy: Defending the Holy Land, by Steve Tibble.
New Medieval Books: Rome and the Invention of the Papacy
A look at how the Papacy in Rome developed in the Early Middle Ages through the Liber pontificalis, a series of biographies of popes. This text is crucial to understanding how the Papacy came to dominate the Christian religion in Western Europe.
New Medieval Books: Chronicle of King Pedro
Many historians will want to read through this book – it’s the first English translation of the chronicle and the most important source we have of Pedro the Cruel.
New Medieval Books: History of the Nation of Archers
This thirteenth-century Armenian history focuses on the Mongol invasion of the Middle East, covering the years 1214 to 1273.
New Medieval Books: Translated Texts
Seven recently translated texts from the medieval world.
New Medieval Books: From Military to Markets
Five new books that take you from Wales to Russia, and from the Near East to China.
New Medieval Books: Not Just Medieval
Here are five new books that are not entirely about the Middle Ages, but the other sections are good too.
New Medieval Books: From Foxes to Craft Beer
Five new books about the Middle Ages to tell you about, including on a somewhat forgotten English prince, and what they were saying about animals in Paris.
New Medieval Books: From Paper to Asses
Five new books about the medieval world, that will tell you about topics like Vikings, treason and games.
New Medieval Books: Vikings
Five new books that tell us about the Norse and the Viking Age.
Christians and Jews in 13th-century England, with Adrienne Williams Boyarin
This week on The Medieval Podcast, Danièle speaks with Adrienne Williams Boyarin about the ways in which Christians and Jews dealt with similarity and difference in thirteenth-century England.
How to be a medieval thief (and how to catch one)
Have you ever wondered what scams and tricks people thought of in the Middle Ages? The Book of Charlatans is one such guide, and one can read about the ways of thieves. Fortunately, it also gives methods to catch them.
New Medieval Books: Monks and Mongols
Five newly published books, that take us from a tenth-century Swiss monastery to a physician in thirteenth-century Egypt.
New Medieval Books: From Peasants to Mudlarkers
Five new books to tell you about, taking you from Brigstock to Baghdad.
Biography of Medieval Egyptian Queen shows her influence on Cairo’s architecture
A woman born into slavery in 13th-century Egypt broke the glass ceiling of the time to become a sultan and changed the look of Cairo with her innovative architectural projects.
Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe
Drawing on a variety of legal, liturgical, literary, and archival sources, Ephraim Shoham-Steiner examines the reasons for the involvement in crime, the social profile of Jews who performed crimes, and the ways and mechanisms employed by the legal and communal body to deal with Jewish criminals and with crimes committed by Jews.
New Medieval Books: From Swindlers to Swords
Five new books about the Middle Ages, telling stories that take us from Aquitaine to Baghdad.
The Best Books about the Middle Ages from 2020
Maybe unlike other years, 2020 is not one that we want to reflect on, particularly, and yet there were a few good things to come out of this year – namely books. This week on The Medieval Podcast, Danièle speaks with Peter Konieczny about some of the year’s best books.
New Medieval Books: Knights, Ladies and Pigs
Five new publications about the Middle Ages – which one would you read?
What makes Le Jouvencel a great read and a great translation
The recent translation of the 15th-century work known as Le Jouvencel is going to something that many medievalists will want to read.
Book Review: Beowulf: A New Translation, by Maria Dahvana Headley
Headley fuses Old English language and poetry devices with contemporary idiom and slang.
Byzantium in Eastern Europe
Alice Isabella Sullivan and Maria Alessia Rossi preview their new book Byzantium in Eastern European Visual Culture in the Late Middle Ages
The Medieval Tournament as Spectacle
In this roundtable event, Alan Murray and Karen Watts will highlight some of the groundbreaking research showcased in their new book The Medieval Tournament as Spectacle: Tourneys, jousts and pas d’armes, 1100-1600.
Preventing the Misuse of the Medieval Past with Amy Kaufman and Paul Sturtevant
There are those who abuse the medieval past in order to promote ideas of racism, white supremacism, and other toxic ideologies. To counter these views, Amy S. Kaufman and Paul B. Sturtevant have written The Devil’s Historians: How Modern Extremists Abuse the Medieval Past. They join Danièle on The Medieval Podcast to talk about their work and how the Middle Ages was more diverse, compelling, and complex than is often portrayed in mass media.