One of the more important elements in the Medieval Landscape was the deer park. Dalby Hage near Lund. This may be the earliest known example in Scandinavia. Perhaps it was inspired by the royal parks in England near Winchester?
Category: Medieval Articles
Medieval Tunics from Uvdal in Norway
RESEARCH: Beneath the floor of the Stave-Church in Uvdal a burial was found containing medieval tunics and other textiles...
A Christian Cemetery in a Bog from the early Middle Ages
A Christian Cemetery in a Bog from the early Middle Ages has revealed extraordinary Christian "bog Bodies"...
St. Olaf of Norway – Missionary with an “Iron Tongue”
St. Olaf of Norway was a missionary with an "iron tongue". He was central to the process of Christianisation of Norway after 1015, concludes Olav Tveito, who describes it as a top-down affair
Mosfell Valley
RESEARCH: The Sagas shed light on Viking life in the Mosfell Valley in Iceland...
Crisis in Durham
RESEARCH: Crisis management in Late-Medieval Durham might teach us a lesson...
Piera de’ Medici
NEW RESEARCH: Abbess Piera de Medici’ and her kin in Renaissance Florence...
Monastic Authority
NEW RESEARCH: The story of presumptuous canons and a hard-nosed abbess in Poitiers...
Voices of Light
Minimalism, New Simplicity and Simple Living is reflected in the music of Einhorn: Voices of Light...
The Great Famine
NEW RESEARCH: Market Failure during the Great Famine in England and Wales (1315 – 17)...
Pest or Plague?
Did Yersinia Pestis cause Black Death? Or was it another plague? The jury is still out…
Stigmatic Spirituality
NEW RESEARCH: The concept of stigmatization developed long before St. Francis in late Antiquity...
Stigmata in Pisa
NEW RESEARCH: Giotto’s Stigmatization of Francis and its Pisan Context reveals a new fashion...
Medieval Inns
NEW RESEARCH: Medieval Inns in England were big business and innkeepers were prominent members of society...
Bede and Willibrord
ARTICLE: Bede, Willibrord and the Letters of Pope Honorius I on the genesis of the archbishopric of York...
Hofstadir
New excavations at Hofstadir in Northern Iceland have uncovered a midden from around 1300 showing increasing hardship...