The Medieval Masterpiece, the Guide of Kells, Is Now Digitized and Out there On-line

If you already know noth­ing else about medieval Euro­pean illu­mi­nat­ed man­u­scripts, you positive­ly know the Guide of Kells. “Certainly one of Eire’s nice­est cul­tur­al trea­sures” com­ments Medievalists.internet, “it’s set other than oth­er man­u­scripts of the identical peri­od by the qual­i­ty of its artwork­work and the sheer num­ber of illus­tra­tions that run via­out the 680 pages of…

The World’s First Medieval Digital Instrument: The EP-1320 Lets You Play the Sounds of Hurdy-Gurdies, Lutes, Gregorian Chants & Extra

Right now of the 12 months, the Swedish island of Received­land places on Medeltidsveck­an, or “Medieval Week,” the coun­strive’s largest his­tor­i­cal fes­ti­val. Accord­ing to its offi­cial About web page, it provides its vis­i­tors the prospect to “watch knights on horse­again, drink some­factor chilly, take a craft­ing course, prac­tice archery, lis­ten to a con­cert or pic­nic…

Intercourse and Alcohol in Medieval Occasions: A Look into the Pleasures of the Center Ages

Play­ing video video games, road-trip­ping throughout Amer­i­ca, binge-lis­ten­ing to pod­casts, chat­ting with arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence: these are a couple of of our mod­ern plea­sures not simply unknown to, however unimag­in­in a position by, human­i­ty within the Mid­dle Ages. But medieval peo­ple had been, in spite of everything, peo­ple, and as Ter­ence put it greater than a…

Medievalist Professor Solutions Medieval Questions From Twitter: Why Is It known as the “Center” Ages?, What Did Medieval English Sound Like?, and Extra

From Wired comes this: “Professional­fes­sor of Eng­lish and Medieval Lit­er­a­ture Dr. Dorsey Arm­robust solutions your ques­tions in regards to the Mid­dle Ages from Twit­ter. Why is it known as the “Mid­dle” Ages? [What did medieval Eng­lish sound like?] What activ­i­ties did peo­ple do for enjoyable? Why had been ani­mals tried in court docket for crimes?…

Behold the Codex Gigas (aka “Satan’s Bible”), the Largest Medieval Manuscript within the World

Bar­achieve with the dev­il and it’s possible you’ll wind up with a gold­en fid­dle, tremendous­nat­ur­al gui­tar-play­ing ability, or a room stuffed with gleam­ing alchem­ized straw. Whoops, we mis­at­trib­uted that final one. It’s actu­al­ly Rumpel­stilt­pores and skin’s doing, however the by-morn­ing-or-else lifeless­line that dri­ves the Broth­ers Grimm favourite is just not dis­sim­i­lar to the ulti­ma­tum posed…