Read the novel and see the rapiers, armours and battle machines...
Category: Medieval History
Writing Britain
What Britain looks like, when seen through the pen of poets...
How to perform Beowulf?
When the famous Nobel Prize winner, Seamus Heayney, took upon himself to translate Beowulf, he also made the poem a fashionable part of the medieval circuit. The wider question raised in a new book is what it takes to "perform beowulf"?
Europa Jagellonica
Art and culture of the dynasty of the Jagellonians 1386 -1572…
Tudor Obsession
The term ‘Tudor’ was hardly used in the 16th Century…
Hyperborea and the Festival Montalbâne
“Hyperborea – Music from the North” summons medieval music-lovers and performers in Freyburg this summer to take part in the 22. Medieval Musical Festival of Montalbâne.
Wenlok Jug Stolen
A national Medieval treasure stolen from local Museum...
Vikings at Bygdøy
Norwegian minister closes debate. Viking ships remain at Bygdøy…
Jarrow and Bede
Bid for World Heritage Status for Wearmouth-Jarrow founders on review from ICOMOS
Irish Records
In 1922 the National Archive of Ireland went up into flames...
Captured Goods
New exhibition in Bern shows captured goods from 1250 -1520…
Glass at Glastonbury
In AD 680 Glastonbury Abbey ran the first glass furnace in Britain
Young Dürer
The largest exhibition of the works of Dürer in 40 years...
Royal Bones
A.D. 1035. This year died King Knute at Shaftesbury…
Herrenhof Lauresham
Lauresham is a Carolingian manor being rebuilt at Lorsch...
Exhibition at Lorsch Abbey
Exhibition at Lorsch tells the story of Lorsch Abbey from the beginnings around 660 AD and up until now