John Cabot: A Man of the Renaissance
Made by the National Film Board of Canada in 1964, this short film documents John Cabot’s quest to discover a westward route across the sea to the Orient in 15th-century Europe.
Cultural geographies of the contact zone: Gaels, Galls and overlapping territories in late medieval Ireland
Cultural geographies of the contact zone: Gaels, Galls and overlapping territories in late medieval Ireland By John Morrissey Social & Cultural Geography, Vol. 6:4…
Three Sources of Textual Evidence of Columbus, Crypto Jew
Three Sources of Textual Evidence of Columbus, Crypto Jew By Estelle Irizarry Published Online (2006) Introduction: The purpose of this paper is to add new…
Post-settlement history of Icelandic forests
In a book that Ari the Learned (1068-1148) wrote to describe the settlement of the country, he tells that Iceland was covered with wood between the seashore and the mountains.
Landscape and Perception: The Medieval Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela from an Archaeological Perspective
Landscape and Perception: The Medieval Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela from an Archaeological Perspective By Julie Candy Esharp, Issue 4 (2005) Abstract: The…
Viking Denmark and Early Medieval Italy: a possibility for a comparison
I think that Viking Age in Denmark and the Early Middle Ages in Italy (more or less from 800 until 1100-1200) were both a period of experimentation, with changes in economy, society and, as a consequence, in settlement pattern.
A Medieval Worldview and its relation to Literary Authorities in a Late Medieval Pilgrimage Account
A Medieval Worldview and its relation to Literary Authorities in a Late Medieval Pilgrimage Account By Andreas Sylvest Wille Ennen Ja Nyt, Vol.4 (2004)…
The Medieval Islamic World Through the Eyes of Two Travelers
The Medieval Islamic World Through the Eyes of Two Travelers By Melanie A. Clouser Agora, Vol.3:1 (2002) Introduction: Islamic regions, long ignored and misunderstood by…
Parks in Medieval England
Parks in Medieval England By S.A. Mileson Oxford University Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-19-956567-2 Parks were prominent and, indeed, controversial features of the medieval…
A Reconstruction of the Flora and Vegetation in the Central Area of Early Medieval Kiev, Ukraine, Based on the Results of Palynological Investigations
A Reconstruction of the Flora and Vegetation in the Central Area of Early Medieval Kiev, Ukraine, Based on the Results of Palynological Investigations…
Water in the Landscape of a Town using the example of Gdansk and the Gdansk Conurbation
Water in the Landscape of a Town using the example of Gdansk and the Gdansk Conurbation By Hanna Sienkowska Hydrological Processes and Water Management…
What did the Viking Discoverers of America Know of the North Atlantic Environment?
The uncontroversial evidence is therefore meager, but there are hints that the Norse did indeed appreciate many facets of North Atlantic oceanography, meteorology and climate.
Time, Travel and Political Communities: Transportation and Travel Routes in Sixth- and Seventh-century Northumbria
The focus of this paper is the role that transportation routes and technology played in structuring the developing political communities in northeast England during the sixth and centuries, particularly the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria.
Conflicting accounts on the fear of strangers: Muslim and Arab perceptions of Europeans in medieval geographical literature
Conflicting accounts on the fear of strangers: Muslim and Arab perceptions of Europeans in medieval geographical literature By Samar Attar Arab Studies Quartely…
The journal of Roberto da Sanseverino (1417-1487) : a study on navigation and seafaring in the fifteenth century
Roberto da Sanseverino went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1458. He travelled from Venice to Jaffa on a galley and made his return, from Acre to Ancona, on a three-masted sailing ship.
Earthquakes in Medieval Sicily (A Historical Revision 7th – 13th Century)
The need to understand the activity of the main seismogenetic structures, to calculate the recurrence periods of major earthquakes and to identify their main epicentral areas, requires wide-ranging research in the field of historical seismology.
The Earthquakes of the XIV and XV Centuries in Catalonia
The Earthquakes of the XIV and XV Centuries in Catalonia By Carme Olivera, Esther Redondo, Jerome Lambert, Antoni Riera, and Antoni Roca First…
The People of the Orient as Seen by the Chroniclers of King Manuel I
The People of the Orient as Seen by the Chroniclers of King Manuel I By Anabela Miranda Soares Sights and insights: interactive images of…
Ptolemy’s East Africa in Early Medieval Arab Geography
Ptolemy’s East Africa in Early Medieval Arab Geography By M.A. Tolmacheva Journal for the History of Arabic Science, Vol.9 (1991) Introduction: The well recognized debt…
Early Castles in the Medieval Landscape of Rutland
Early Castles in the Medieval Landscape of Rutland By Oliver Creighton Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, Vol. 73 (1999) Abstract:…
Designs Upon the Land: Elite Landscapes of the Middle Ages
Designs Upon the Land: Elite Landscapes of the Middle Ages By Oliver H. Creighton Boydell, 2009 ISBN: 9781843834465 The phrase `designed landscape’ is…
The Norse in Newfoundland: L’Anse aux Meadows and Vinland
The Norse in Newfoundland: L’Anse aux Meadows and Vinland By Birgitta Wallace Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, Vol. 19:1 (2003) Introduction: One thousand years…
Headless Men and Hungry Monsters: the Anglo-Saxons and their “Others”
Anglo-Saxons focused on a host of monsters believed to inhabit distant Africa and Asia: The dog-headed, fire-breathing cynocephali, one-footed sciopods, wonderful headless, mindless, possibly soulless blemmyes, and many others.
The development of an Early Historic tree-ring chronology for Scotland
The development of an Early Historic tree-ring chronology for Scotland Crone, Anne Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 128 (1998), 485-493…
Tornadoes within the Czech Republic: from early medieval chronicles to the ‘‘internet society’’
The oldest records of tornado occurrence in the region can be found in chronicles from the first half of the 12th century – the two most interesting of these are presented here in translation from the original Latin texts.