Vote for Your Favourite Medieval Studies’ Open Access Resource
Princeton’s Middle Ages for Educators (MAFE) team has been working to pull together the MAFE Open Access Resources (OAR) Sweet 16 competition featuring materials about the Middle Ages, and the voting is now open!
New Medieval Books: What is Medieval?
What is Medieval?: Decoding Approaches to the Medieval and Medievalism in the 21st Century Edited by Claire Kennan & Emma J. Wells Brepols…
Careers for Medievalists?
Sponsored by the British Archaeological Association, this event aims to demonstrate the range of career options available to medievalists, especially those studying in Art History and adjacent disciplines such as History, Archaeology and Heritage Studies.
Should we stop talking about The Crusades?
The grand narratives of the crusading past often rely on frameworks and paradigms that were first formulated centuries ago and should now be regarded as more limiting than helpful.
Online course on medieval Christmas cooking to start next month
A five-day virtual cookery course which will recreate a medieval Christmas with recipes from Germany, France and England, will be hosted by the team at Eat Medieval next month from December 6th to 10th.
Online course on how to create a medieval Easter feast
The intriguing world of medieval Easter will be unearthed at a new virtual course staged by Blackfriars Restaurant in Newcastle in conjunction with Durham University’s Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS).
Middle Ages for Educators
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, people all over the world are having to come up with new ways to teach and to learn in virtual environments, but it can be hard to find resources while still trying to run your own circus at home. This week on The Medieval Podcast, Danièle speaks with the creators of Middle Ages for Educators, a website that makes learning and teaching medieval history a whole lot easier.
Online course on Medieval Africa to begin next year
It will run from January 11 to February 26, 2021, and is aimed at K-12 educators.
Race, Racism, and Teaching the Middle Ages
This special webinar was hosted by the Medieval Academy of America, and examines issues related to race and racism and how the Middle Ages is taught in universities and colleges.
Teaching Tolkien’s Translations of Medieval Literature: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir Orfeo, and Pearl
J.R.R. Tolkien, the medievalist who became the father of modern fantasy literature, translated many poems out of Old English, Old Norse and Middle English into carefully versified modern English.
The V&A to offer medieval art courses this fall
London’s Victoria and Albert Museum will be launching two art history courses that will allow students to experience it’s world-class medieval collection like never before.
Learning about the Middle Ages through games with Kyle Lincoln
One of the buzzwords in education is gamification – using games to get people more engaged with what they are learning. Danièle is joined this week by Kyle Lincoln to talk about his work with Reacting to the Past and creating games to learn about the Middle Ages.
Understanding medieval chronicles with Lane Sobehrad
This week, Danièle speaks with Dr. Lane Sobehrad about how medieval people wrote history, and how historians today can do their part to help future generations through outreach.
Should medievalists be teaching Game of Thrones?
It’s easy to see why we medievalists would hope that Game of Thrones could be a gateway drug to studying the ‘real’ Middle Ages
Free online course on the Book of Kells returns
Following a hugely successful debut, Trinity College Dublin is again running its free online course on the Book of Kells – one of the world’s most famous medieval manuscripts.
Medieval manliness – Students design board game in history class
What better way to understand medieval masculinity than through a game?
Pigment and parchment at Penn
University of Pennsylvania students pair with visiting scholars to paint illustrations like those in centuries-old illuminated manuscripts.
Free(ish) online course on Medieval Spain starts next week
The University of Colorado and is teaming up with Coursea to launch a partially-free online course: Toledo: Deciphering Secrets of Medieval Spain. The course begins on October 29th and runs for six weeks.
The Assassin’s Creed Curriculum: Video Games and the Middle Ages
Of the 25 most popular video games, several take place within a medieval, or pseudo medieval, setting, such as Skyrim, World of Warcraft and the Assassin’s Creed franchise. This paper argues that rather than being distractions, video games can offer academic medievalists an exciting opportunity
Free Online Course on the Book of Kells starts next month
A new, free, online course developed by Trinity College Dublin will allow learners worldwide to explore the history of Ireland through the remarkable Book of Kells — one of the world’s most famous medieval manuscripts.
Vikings, History, and Ourselves: Still Searching…
In the fall of 2017 a bombshell announcement was made that shook not only the academic world, but the general populace as well.
On Learning How to Teach the Black Death
Plague science is a rapidly developing field, as is paleogenetics more generally. Increasingly, too, developments in climate science will likely be able to contribute meaningfully to our understanding of the role of changing climatic conditions and major outbreaks of plague.
Learn Medieval History Online
Have you always wanted to study medieval history but not had the time?
Book Review: A Medieval Woman’s Companion by Susan Signe Morrison
Susan Signe Morrison’s book, “A Medieval Woman’s Companion” brings the contributions of medieval women, famous and obscure, to the forefront in this fantastic introductory text.
