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New Medieval Books: From Vikings to Tudors - Medievalists.net
Five new books that tell the stories of famous Vikings and life in the bookstores of Florence.
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Robert Burns, the famous Scottish poet, wrote about the myths, legends and traditions associated with Halloween in Scotland in his poem ‘Halloween’, written in 1785. Halloween in Scotland is all about... View More
Halloween customs in Scotland
Discover how Halloween, 31st October, is celebrated in Scotland and the history behind the Scottish All Hallows Eve celebrations.
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The weird story of an Icelandic ghost named Þórgunna - Medievalists.net
Then, in the middle of the night, the party was awakened by a noise as of someone fumbling about in the darkness: someone had broken into the farmhouse. The larder: the thief was in the larder.
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How to Kill a Medieval Zombie - Medievalists.net
By Danièle Cybulskie I’ve often said that people in the Middle Ages shared the same hopes and fears that we do. Believe it…
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Thucydides
Thucydides (c.460-400 BCE) “What we should lament is not the loss of houses or of land, but the loss of men’s lives. Men come first; the rest is the fruit of their labour.”…
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A Murder, a Siege, and Too Many Successors: How Flanders descended into Civil War in 1127
Read the Introduction to Medieval Warfare magazine’s Issue VII:5 - The murder of Charles the Good.
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Desert heat naturally mummified hundreds of bodies that were buried in western China’s Tarim Basin between roughly 4,000 and 1,800 years ago. Their boat-shaped coffins were unlike any others in the re... View More
DNA from mysterious Asian mummies reveals their surprising ancestry
Ancient DNA indicates that an enigmatic Bronze Age group consisted of genetic, but not cultural, loners.
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The Edict of Salerno. In 1231 after noticing the rapidly rising cost of medicine, Emperor Friedrich II made it forbidden for doctors to double as pharmacists and the prices of various medicines were f... View More
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia
A gold augustalis bearing Frederick’s effigy
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Flattening hills to build Seattle, 1905-1930 - Rare Historical Photos
Starting in 1897 and continuing through 1930, the hilly topography of central Seattle was radically altered by a series of regrades.
