Plans are being unveiled to turn Castle Auckland, former home of the Prince Bishops of Durham, into a major new touristic hotspot in Northern England.
Category: Medieval Histories
‘Medieval Histories’ offers medievalists all the news about exhibitions, books, research, archaeology, travel-tips and much more from the Medieval World
Medieval Bog Butter
RECIPE: Make your own medieval butter and preserve it in an Irish Bog. Brian Kaller tells us how wrap it up and dig it unter
Joan of Arc’s Ring a Stage Prop at Puy du Fou
Recently the Puy du Fou foundation, which runs a historical theme park in Western France, bought the possibly authentic ring of Joan of Arc.
The Medieval Manuscript in the Twenty-First Century
Rare Book School in Virginia offers a course for medievalists on how to work with medieval manuscripts in the 21st century
Medieval Studies Summer Programme in Cambridge
The medieval summer programme in Cambridge offers students from all over the world the opportunity to work with the finest British medievalists
PhDs at Radboud University in the Netherlands
PhDs at Radboud University in the Netherlands
The Medieval Book in Terms of Quantitative Methods
The Medieval Book in Terms of Quantitative Methods, a summer school in Paris, teaches students to compare medieval books
Authors, Narratives, and Audiences in Medieval Saints’ Lives
Medieval Saint's Lives represented a special literary genre, both exciting and innovative. New collection of papers aims to address this topic.
Ganger Rolf and Rollo – Norwegian or Dane?
This week a group of Norwegians succeeded in gaining access to the remains of the Dukes, Richard the I and II, at Fécamp in order to subtract DN from their remains
Ordinary Writing in the 13th Century
New book by Paul Bertrand about “Ordinary Writing” in Northern France and Flanders in the long 13th century follows in the footsteps of Michael T. Clanchy
Valley of Schnals – Val Senales – in South Tyrol in the Middle Ages
The Valley of Schnals lies in the upper part of the Alpines. Recent archaeological research documents the different human activities in the Middle Ages
Castle of Juval
The Castle of Juval lies on an outcrop at the entrance of the Valley of Schnals in South Tyrol.
Medieval Libraries
The Journal “French Studies” published in February 2016 a special issue focusing on “Medieval Libraries, history of the books, and literature".
Henry VIII and Traumatic Brain Injury
Contemporaries noted a dramatic shift in the personality of Henry VIII. Have Neurologists from Yale found the explanation?
Late Medieval Cog from Kampen
Late Medieval Cog raised from the river Ijssel near Kampen in Holland
IMC 2017 Focus on Medieval Otherness
The thematic strand chosen by IMC – for 2017 – is ‘Otherness’. This focus has been chosen for its wide application across all centuries and regions and its impact on all disciplines devoted to the Middle Ages