New Medieval Books: Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule
Read an excerpt from Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule, by Katherine Pangonis
Storyland with Amy Jeffs
There’s one thing that seems common to humankind across time and space: we love a good origin story. This week on The Medieval Podcast, Danièle speaks with Amy Jeffs about some of the medieval origin myths and legends surrounding the British Isles and its peoples, and how she’s retold them for a modern audience.
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: Mind and Body
Five new books about the Middle Ages that deal with topics related to health and good living.
Ten Books about the Middle Ages you can read for free
Over the last year or so more books in the field of medieval studies have been released as Open Access – meaning that you can freely download and read right now. Here are ten of those books – enjoy!
The Best Medieval Books of 2021
One of the great things about 2021 drawing to a close is that we can take a moment to think about all of the really amazing books we’ve read over the past twelve months. This week on The Medieval Podcast, Danièle speaks with Peter Konieczny about ten of our favourite books of the last year.
Representing the trauma of captivity, enslavement, and degradation, with Adam Goldwyn
Can Byzantine literature speak powerfully to these transhistorical traumas? How can we activate it to do so?
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.
The Bright Ages, with Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry
For medieval historians, a large part of the job tends to be working against common myths, using research to push back especially against narratives that erase people or that oversimplify complex issues. This week on The Medieval Podcast, Danièle speaks with Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry, who have teamed up to write a new history of the Middle Ages in counterpoint to these old ideas: The Bright Ages.
New Medieval Books: Vikings
Five new books that tell us about the Norse and the Viking Age.
A medieval recipe for a Meatless Mushroom Dish
This 13th-century recipe comes from Iberia and is made with mushrooms, eggs, and other readily available ingredients.
Powers and Thrones with Dan Jones
In the last decade or so, there’s been a rising tide of history books and articles that are written to meet the people where they are; public histories of the Middle Ages full of life and energy, that hook even more people and bring them into our world. This week on The Medieval Podcasr, Danièle speaks with a writer who does it better than maybe anyone else in the world today: Dan Jones.
New Medieval Books: From Myths Retold to Dynastic Politics
Five new books about the Middle Ages, which tell us about people big and small.
How to live like a monk, with Danièle Cybulskie
Can medieval monastic practices, with their emphasis on a healthy soul, mind, and body, inspire us to live fuller lives today? This week on The Medieval Podcast, Danièle is the guest as she talks about her new book How to Live Like a Monk: Medieval Wisdom for Modern Life.
The Middle Ages: A Graphic History
Eleanor Janega has penned a new book about medieval history in the medium of a graphic novel. Here she talks about creating that book.
New Medieval Books: From Dragon Slaying to Manuscript Making
Five new books to tell you about, including a graphic history of the Middle Ages.
New Medieval Books: From Vikings to Tudors
Five new books that tell the stories of famous Vikings and life in the bookstores of Florence.
An unrecoverable reality? Recent interpretations of post-Roman Britain
2021 has seen a flurry of books published about early medieval Britain
Manuscript fragments of the Merlin legend now published
Their collaborative research and findings, which include a full transcription and translation into English of the text, have been brought together in a new book called The Bristol Merlin: Revealing the Secrets of a Medieval Fragment
The Yorkshire Historical Dictionary brings lost words to life
A new volume of a historical dictionary revealing thousands of Yorkshire words which had been lost for centuries was launched earlier this month on Yorkshire Day (1 August).
New Medieval Books: Translations
Here are six new books that offer translations of texts from the Middle Ages.
Rose de Burford and English Embroidery
My new book, How to Survive in Medieval England, published by Pen & Sword, is a guide to travelling in history: what to expect, how to dress, how to stay safe and what to look for on the menu.