This book explores a previously little-examined aspect of Scandinavian history, namely witchcraft and magic in post-Viking, but pre-Reformation centuries.
Author: Medieval Histories
Medieval Noah
The visual aesthetic and the moral stance of Noah, the film, is obviously inspired by medieval maps of the ancient world ..
Treasures in Léon
Léon became the dynastic centre of the kingdom of Léon-Castile in the 11th century. Its royal treasure may still be admired...
Doña Urraca
Doña Urraca (1032 - 1101): a promiscuous murderess or a a dedicated promoter of her lineage and dynasty?
Chalice of Doña Urraca
The Chalice of Doña Urraca from ca. 1060 is made out of two antique cups of onyx ...
The Holy Grail
Rumour has it that the Holy Grail has been found in Léon, a sleepy small town in the North of Spain
Palazzo di Spada
Is one of the hidden jewels in Rome - Palazzo di Spada - being destroyed in order to make way for a carpark?
Crac de Chevalier
Government troops in Syria have recaptured the historic Crusader Castle, Crac des Chevaliers...
The Bayeux Tapestry – New Approaches
The Bayeux Tapestry: New Approaches presents a series of papers with quite new reflections on the enigmatic embroidery
A Needle in the Right Hand of God
Yale professor R. Howard Bloch reveals the history, the hidden meaning, the deep beauty, and the enduring allure of the Bayeux Tapestry
The Bayeux Tapestry by Lucien Musset
The Bayeux Tapestry by Lucien Musset, presents his reflections and understandings of this masterpiece
King Harold II and the Bayeux Tapestry
This book presents a series of papers, which try to shed new light on Harold Godwinesson and the Bayeaux Tapestry
The archaeological Authority of the Bayeux Tapestry
Michael Lewis explores to which extent the artifacts in the Bayeux Tapestry reflect the material culture of the Normans and Anglo-Saxons around 1066
Was the Bayeux Tapestry made in France?
In this book George Beech presents his hypothesis that the Bayeux Tapestry was made in Saumur and not England
The Bayeux Tapestry: Embroidering the Facts of History
This book makes available to the wider public the fruits of research carried out over the past twenty years by some of the most eminent of Bayeux Tapestry scholars
The Normans in their Histories: Propaganda, Myth and Subversion
Emily Albu examines the myths and literary strategies of the historians, which they employed, to expose and explain the wolfish predation at the core of Normanness