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These Fragments. Stray thoughts on the Archaeology of Early Medieval Dress and jewellery

These Fragments is a blog written by Toby Martin, who has recently acquired a post as a postdoctoral junior research fellow at the University of Oxford. The title of the project is “Origins of a European Community. Creating identity and Networkd with dress in Post-Roman Europe”

 

Medieval Hungary

Medieval Hungary is edited by Zsombor Jékely, an art historian from Budapest, Hungary. He works at the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest. Recently he have been one of the curators of a major exhibition dedicated to King and Emperor Sigismund.

He received my PhD from Yale University, where I studied at the History of Art Department, focusing on medieval art. His dissertation is titled Art and Patronage in Medieval Hungary – The Frescoes of the Augustinian Church at Siklós (advisor: Walter Cahn). His earlier diplomas are from the Central European University (MA in Medieval Studies) and from Eötvös Loránd University (MA in Art History).

 

 

The Medieval World

My name is Becky Cousins and I am an MA History graduate. I started this blog and the associated twitter account in 2010 as a sideline to my undergraduate History course. I had developed a keen interest in medieval history and wanted to pursue as much of this wonderful and fascinating period as I possibly could!
Email: themedievalworld@hotmail.co.uk

Material Culture is about stuff from the Middle Ages and Renaissance, including clothing, armor, and artwork as well as news about museum exhibits and new books. More pictures than prose, there is always new and interesting stuff to delight you. This bonanza is brought to you by Karen Larsdatter

She also provides us with a very generous link page full of photos and links to everything which is both medieval and material…

the Merovingianworld is written by James Palmer and focus on the Early Middle Ages and Other Things

“Merovingianworld is a site dedicated to the culture and politics of the Frankish kingdoms and their neighbours, from the end of the Western Roman Empire until the Carolingian coup of 750-1. It is intended primarily as a resource to aid teaching and research, with short essays, links to editions and translations of texts, images, and bibliography. Sometimes there will be news, tracking the best and worst of new publications in the field, and including reports from conferences and seminars.”

 

The Medieval Academy Blog tells the stories from the Medieval Academy of America and post conferences and CFP.

 

 

The History Blog is not always about medieval history, but it is still worth checking out. Articles are very well written and documented.

In its presentation it says:

“It’s a blog. About history. So I was sifting through reams of Google News Alerts, slightly miffed that there wasn’t some nice, handy blog that had already done all the sifting for me, when it struck me like the proverbial bolt of lightning that non-laziness is an actual option. Hell, if I’m doing it for myself, why not post the products for all my brothers and sisters in history nerddom? My interests are primarily European ancient and medieval, but I’m quite undiscriminating when it comes to history, so I’ll pretty much blather about anything that catches my eye. I also intend to make a note of all the topically relevant books I read, and a list of all the topically relevant books sitting in a pile glaring at me.My name is Livius. I shall endeavor not to suck. That is all.”

 

In The Middle is a medieval studies group blog written by Eileen Joy, Steve Mentz, Jeffrey Cohen, Mary Kate Hurley, Jonathan Hsy and Karl Steel

It lives by this observation by Deleuze and Guattari: It’s not easy to see things in the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you’ll see that everything changes (– Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus)

Modern Medieval is a blog where The Middle Ages still have something to say.

This intermittent blog about the continuing relevance of the period known as the Middle Ages to the modern world and modernity’s continuing fascination with the “medieval, is written by Matthew Gabriel, Rich Godden, Larry Swain, Brandon Hawk and Jennifer Lynn Jordan

 

 

Revealing Words is about Northumbria in the Tenth Century

Revealing Words follows the research trails of Karen Louise Jolly exploring the community of St. Cuthbert at Chester-le-Street, Northumbria, in the second half of the tenth century. Her starting point is the manuscript Durham Cathedral Library A.IV.19 and the additions made by Aldred and a group of scribes at Chester-le-Street circa 970

Karen Louise Jolly  is associate professor in the department of history at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Norse and Viking Ramblings is a gentle wander through the Viking world undertaken by Viqueen aka Judith Jesch, who is professor at  in Nottingham.

During the day (and sometimes the night) she teaches and does research into Old Norse language and literature and the Viking Age. The purpose of her blog is to record experiences and observations from her encounters with Vikings in the media, in popular culture, and on her travels in the Viking world. She records these for herself. “But it might be that you, too, dear reader, are interested. If so, please feel free to comment”, she writes.

 

Heavenfield is a blog written by Michelle Ziegler.

Michelle Ziegler likes to be called Michelle of Heavenfield. It has a nice medieval ring, she claims. She writes about herself that she: “I am just a Gen-Xer trying to find my way through a very busy life, juggling jobs, church, and graduate school again, in pursuit of a diversion here, on a perpetual pilgrimage to Heavenfield.”

She also maintains other blogs: Contagions on historic infectious diseases, and Selah on Bede’s abbreviated psalter.

In Thirteenth Century England is a blog about thinking, writing, and teaching high medieval history. It is written by Kathleen Neal, who study and teach at the Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies in the School of Philosophical, Historial and International Studies, Monash University (Australia).

Views expressed in her blog are her own and not representative of the CMRS, SOPHIS or Monash.