Medieval violence
one anti-recommendation and two actual reading recs
Hannah Barker Lecture: The Most Precious Merchandise
The Florida State University Department of History welcomes Hannah Barker for her presentation, ‘That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500’ (Philadelphia: University ofPennsylvania Press, 2019).…
Illuminations in Dark Times: An Embroidered Bestiary
When I began my new hobby in mid-February of 2020, I had no idea what the year had in store for me or the rest of the world. Over the…
Medieval Justice
from a medieval historian
Our Before and After
The pandemic has created a dividing line for our time, like many others in the past.We are living through ‘strange times’, as people keep saying – ‘unprecedented times’. In many…
Witch Trials are not Medieval
they happened in the early modern period
Brandon Seifert on Werewolves | The Weird History Podcast
Brandon Seifert has written horror comics such as Witch Doctor, Hellraiser, and The Fly. Lately, he’s been studying werewolf folklore. We talked about the history of werewolf stories, werewolf witch…
The Medieval Tropics
In much of the tropics, insects, heat, and humidity meant that even if texts were written on palm leaves and animal skins, they had to be deliberately preserved or copied…
The Voynich Manuscript and Truth on the Internet
It can be a little frightening for medievalists to see self-evidently wrongheaded interpretations spread like wood lice.
Why knights fought snails in medieval art
Medieval Memes Look in the margins of medieval books and you’ll find an unusual theme: knights vs. snails. Follow Phil Edwards and Vox Almanac on Facebook for more: https://www.facebook.com/philedwardsi… Lillian…