This week's news from the medievalverse has Anders Winroth talking about his new book The Age of the Vikings, funding for Newport's medieval ship, and Buzzfeed talking another look at medieval images.
Today (September 29th) is also Michaelmas, the Christian feast of St. Michael the Archangel. During the Middle Ages it was an important feastday.
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A new article examines how the four Mongol empires collapsed, and concludes "that in all cases, ‘fall’ was the result of internal fac...
A recent article is challenging the notion that the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson was killed by an arrow to the eye during the famous Ba...
This very cool video was found by @BeautifulMaps . It shows how the rise and fall of various states in Europe since the mid-twelfth century ...
The first ever comic book?
Damien Kempf on Tumblr writes about this image from a 12th century manuscript known as the Bible of Stephen Harding . This work conta...
The NPR radio show All Things Considered recently had a feature report on castles in the United States: A couple of weeks ago, The Miami He...
A medieval castle in Ireland has been put up for sale after financial problems forced its hotel business into liquidation. Kilkea Castle in...
With a new Pope about to be chosen, it might be a good time to look at some of his predecessors, and hope that the next heir to St. Peter wi...
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