MAMO aims to explore the continued return to, and relevance of, the Middle Ages. This years conference will be held at the University of Lincoln
Author: Medieval Histories
Saint Martin, expansion and revivals
2016 witness the 1700-year anniversary of St. Martin of Tours. An international and interdisciplinary symposium will be organized in Tours in 2016
Sacred Plunder
In 1204 the Fourth Crusade famously ended with the capture of Constantinople. One result was a massive influx of valuables to the city of Venice. New book explores how the stories told about these events helped to recreate Venice as an important political player in the later Middle Ages.
Medieval riverboat found in the Grado Lagoon
Medieval riverboat from the 10th century has been discovered in the river Stella near the Grado Lagoon close to Udine in Northern Italy
Sunken Dream of Venice
No-one in their right mind travels to Venice these days. Overcrowded with tourists and empty of local Venetians, it does no inspire to any sort of travel, but that of the armchair. We bring you a short overview of the history and a list of books
Maria Annunziata di Monte Sorbo
Along a small scenic route leading into the hilly countryside not far from Sarsina on the motorway between Ravenna and Citta di Castello lies a small church at Monte Sorbo. Although secluded it is well worth a detour.
Making Europe: Columbanus and his legacy 615 – 2015
This year 2015 will mark the 1400th anniversary of the death of Columbanus, Ireland’s missionary saint. The anniversary is accompanied by a series of conferences held at Bangor in Ireland, Luxeuil in France and Bobbio in Italy.
Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies: An Introduction
New Introduction to Oriental Manuscripts offer an important survey of manuscripts belonging to the twelve manuscript traditions of Arab, Armenian, Avestan, Caucasian, Christo-Palestinian, Coptic, Ethiopic, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Slavonic and Syrian languages and scripts
Barbarossa and Altenburg
Altenburg in Thuringia became an important imperial centre in the 12th century, when Barbarossa built a palace there. New foundation seeks to further Altenburg as a centre for the study of Barbarossa
Table and Diplomacy from the Middle Ages to the Present Day
The importance of a meal as the setting for diplomacy is well known. Conference in 2016 seeks to focus on different aspects of such meals from the Middle Ages to the present.
Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food 2016
This years Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food focuses on Fire, Knives and Fridges
The Resources of the Past in Early Medieval Europe
This volume analyses the importance of history, the textual resources of the past and the integration of Christian and imperial Rome into the cultural memory of early medieval Europe
The Hundred Years War – A People’s History
How did people in Late Medieval England and France experience the Hundred Years War. What did knights, clerics, women, peasants, soldiers, nobles and kings think about it? New book by David Green tells the story
Alternative Agriculture: A History From the Black Death to the Present Day
Joan Thirsk pioneered the view of medieval and early modern agriculture as a many-sided business. This book is a late result of her research into this complex world.
Pontefract Castle
Pontefract Castle secures Heritage Lottery Fund investment of over £3million
Cujus Regio – Medieval Border Regions
Cujus Regio is a research project, which aims at a synthesizing analysis of a group of contested regions within Europe and how they came about.