Pennsic Beowulf
Bo Vanderberg reports that he has posted an album of photos from the production of Beowulf, the Road Show, presented at Pennsic 41. The photos are available on his Flickr website.read more
View ArticleMedieval well found under living room floor
Mrs. Colin Steer is not enthused about her husband's discovery of a medieval well under their living room floor. Curiosity about an indentation in the floor led to the discovery that has now sparked...
View ArticlePodcast discusses significance of Richard III discovery
An Academic Minute on WAMC radio discusses the recent archaeological discovery of remains which could possibly be those of King Richard III who was killed at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. The podcast...
View ArticleThe passion of Elizabeth Dacre
Women were rarely recognized as poets in Tudor England, but the chance discovery of a love poem by Elizabeth Dacre to Sir Anthony Coke has given new insight into courtly love in Elizabeth I's time. Dr....
View ArticleAnglo-Saxon Portraits on the BBC
BBC Radio 3 The Essay offers a series of 15-minute portraits of great Anglo-Saxons in an audio podcast. The series features acclaimed historians.read more
View Article"World's biggest shipwreck collection" revealed under Bosphorus
Since 2006, construction workers in Istanbul have worked along with archaeologists to uncover layer after layer of Byzantine history buried beneath the city and the Bosphorus Strait. Now the transit...
View ArticleRowany Festival move considered
Jan Janssen van den Zype geheeten van den Goere reports that a discussion regarding relocation of the 2014 Rowany Festival to a new site is available online, both in written and audio format.read more
View ArticleCalonSound Project adds work of Hyrim de Guillon
HL Mathurin Kerbusso reports that new content has been added to the online CalonSound Project, which endeavors to record and archive the original stories, songs, poems, and instrumental works of the...
View Article"The Sons of Calontir" at The CalonSound Project
Mathurin reports that Ld. Johann Steinarsson's song "The Sons of Calontir" is now available at The CalonSound Project website.read more
View ArticleTalking Richard III
In a podcast for the University of Leicester, Dr Sarah Knight and Dr Mary Ann Lund both from School of English, discuss the recent discovery of the remains of King Richard III and how it will change...
View ArticleMedieval guide to witch hunting
What do you know about witches? Most modern ideas of witchcraft may come from a manuscript, one of only four known copies, found in the library of the University of Alberta. Treatise against the Sect...
View ArticleThe CalonSound Project presents new works from Johann Steinarsson
Three new recordings from Johann Steinarsson are now up at The CalonSound Project.read more
View ArticleClimate change threatens Jamestown
Venice may not be the only historic city threatened by rising ocean waters caused by climate change. Jamestown, the first successful English colony in America, may soon be under water. Christopher...
View ArticleElizabeth Greene shares an "Academic Minute" on Roman shoes
A recent "Academic Minute" from WAMC, Northeast Public Radio, features Dr. Elizabeth Greene of Western University in London, Canada, on the topic of Roman shoes, and what they can tell us about the...
View ArticleViking and NASA collaboration stirs controversy
Ved Chirayath, an aeronautics graduate student at Stanford University, was looking for an unusual photo shoot when he connected NASA's Ames Research Center with a local group of Viking re-enactors. The...
View Article"Hadrada’s Last Stand" added to CalonSound Project
Johann Steinarsson sings his song Hadrada’s Last Stand as the latest entry in the CalonSound Project.read more
View ArticleVatican teams with Bodleian for US$3.2 million digitization project
Thanks to a US$3.2 million grant from the Polonsky Foundation, rare manuscripts from the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana will be digitized and made...
View ArticleReno erat Rudolphus
A mite late, perhaps, but still of note, we bring you a special Christmas present: Reno erat Rudolphus, complete with score so you can sing along.read more
View ArticleWhat's correct? Ax Chaucer
African-American dialect has often been criticized for the use of words such as "ax" instead if "ask," but critics may want to check their Chaucer, who used "ax" in his writing. Shereen Marisol Meraji...
View ArticleWill the codpiece make a comeback?
Stephen Smith of the BBC News opines on one of our favorite accessories, on or off the battlefield.read more
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