Guided by ancient Norse sagas and modern satellite images, searchers claim to have discovered North America's second site of Vikings in Newfoundland
Author: Medieval Histories
Seafaring – an Early Medieval Conference on the Islands of the North Atlantic
Seafaring in the Early Medieval Archipelagos of the North Atlantic is a three-day international conference bringing scholars together in order to create a platform for future collaboration and interdisciplinary projects and research programmes.
Viking Treasures Seen for the First Time
More than ten centuries after being buried in a field conservators are reporting on the contents of a pot of Viking treasure for the first time.
Medieval News – 2016 March
The March Issue of Medieval News 2016 brings you the new stories about Joan of Arc – her purported ring, a legal battle, and neurologist claiming she was epileptic...
Was Joan of Arc Epileptic?
From the age of thirteen, Joan of Arc experienced frequent episodes of auditory and visual hallucinations. Did she suffer from epilepsy?
Domrémy – the Birth Place of Joan of Arc
The place to go to ponder the life and death of Joan of Arc is the humble village near the river Meuse, where she was born
Powerful Textiles from Late Antiquity
This spring, the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at the University of New York has mounted an exhibition on the Power of Textiles: how people in Late Antiquity used sumptuous textiles to design their identity.
Charade Surrounding Return of Joan of Arc Ring
A contingent of French soldiers formed a guard of honour when the purported ring of Joan of Arc illegally returned to France
Medieval Art in L’Aquila
In 2009 an earthquake registering 6.3 on the Richter scale struck the city of L’Aquila in the Abbruzzo in Italy. Now the regional art museum has reopened.
Vitae Dominae by Anima Keltia
Mélanie Bruniaux also known as Anima Keltia is a Celtic and Medieval music harpist. Her first record presents a pleasing repertoire.
New Romanesque and Gothic Masterpieces at Museo Nacional in Barcelona
New Romanesque and Gothic Masterpieces exhibited at Museo Nacional in Barcelona stem from a donation by Antonio Gallardo Ballart
Manuscript Illumination after the Carolingians
Session at next MAA conference in Toronto will shed light on the period "After the Carolingians: Manuscript Illumination in the Tenth–Eleventh Centuries
The Bishop and the Territory from the 5th to the 13th century
New book by Florian Mazel explores how the church invented this idea of regional sovereignty, which came to inspire the later princely or monarchical states
King Harold Bluetooth’s Cross Coinage
Cross coins dominated the local coinage in Denmark during the late reign of Harold Bluetooth from c. 975 – 90 . Recently, a detailed analysis and catalogue was published.
St. Eric of Sweden – A study of the Bones in his Reliquary
Eric the I of Sweden (c. 1125 - 1160) was a stout man, used to fighting and a great fan of a diet of diet of fresh-water fish. It appears, also, the legend of his death speaks the truth
The Ship Burial at Ladby
Curiously enough, Vikings in Denmark were buried in so-called ships-settings, stone-ships created in the landscape to mark out the their graves. Only one viking has ever been found in his ship: the Viking from Ladby.