For years Yorvik has hosted a week-long celebration of all thing Viking. In 2021. Jorvik Plans an online festival of all things Viking.
Category: Medieval Histories
‘Medieval Histories’ offers medievalists all the news about exhibitions, books, research, archaeology, travel-tips and much more from the Medieval World
Face Masks – A Nightmarish Challenge?
Recurring nightmares seems to be one of the unforeseen complications following Covid-19. Some people report being attacked by masked medieval monsters.
The Royal Castle in Alsace – Château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg
The Castle Ruin at Staufenberg from the 12th century in Alsace was rebuilt by the Emperor, Wilhelm II between 1900-1908. An archaeological report tells the story of this iconic “Medieval Castle”
Civilizations of the Supernatural
Astrology, amulets, pagan magic charms, witches, and superstitions. All figure in a new book
IMC 2021 Goes Virtual
International Medieval Congress in 2021 will be digitally organised. Clearly, Leeds hope to overwinter as the flagship of the Medieval History World
China Tries to Corrupt History of Mongol Culture
Du to Chinese attempt at censorship, the Museum of Nantes in Bretagne has been forced to postpone an exhibition of Genghis Khan and the Mongols
Two Princely Graves from the Migration Period – in Sachsen-Anhalt and the Thames Valley
Two Migration Period Graves are considered “once-in-a-lifetime” finds in England and Germany
Cnut the Holy in Odense Cathedral
For nine centuries, the Cathedral in Odense has held the relics of a Danish King, Cnut the Holy and his brother Benedict. Both were murdered inside St. Albans in AD 1086.
Who were the migrants of the migratory period?
Last year, ten million euros were granted to the project, HistoGenes, to study the aDNA of 6000 individuals from AD 400-900.
Medieval Food in Norwegians Towns
A new interdisciplinary research project - The impact of food culture in Medieval towns (FOODIMPACT) will analyse more than 30.000 items in the Cultural Museum in Oslo
The Gjellestad Excavation of a Viking ship Live Streamed
Last week, the Gjellestad excavation was live streamed by Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation
Boiled Sturgeon
The sturgeon was a royal fish. According to ancient law, any sturgeon found on the beaches or caught in the Atlantic or the Baltic, belonged to the king.
An Ancient Atlantic Sturgeon and a Sea-Monster
Recently, archaeologists from Lund University succeeded in identifying a massive specimen of an Atlantic sturgeon in the womb of a capsized royal ship off the Baltic coast
Ethnogenesis and Indigeneity
In the latter half of the 20th-century historians of Late Antiquity have been ferociously engaged in debates concerning the “identity of the Goths”. Were they a people? In what sense? And what does Ethnogenesis and Indigeneity mean?
Ascension of Christ
Luke tells us that Christ ascended into Heaven after Easter. From the 4th century, a feast came to be celebrated, and artists began to depict the Ascension
Deserted Churches in Denmark 1050 -1536
Denmark boasts of more than 1550 medieval churches in continuous use since the 11th and 12th centuries. Less known is that a number of other churches were deserted already in the Middle Ages.