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Did people drink water in the Middle Ages? - 0 views

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    "One of the oddest myths about the Middle Ages is that people did not drink water. Many books and articles have repeated the notion that water was so polluted during this period that medieval men and women would only drink wine, ale or some other kind of beverage. However, there is plenty of evidence that people regularly drank water."
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Medieval Fashion Trends - 0 views

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    " How did fashion change during the Middle Ages? Using images from medieval manuscripts, we can track some of the changes in fashion over the centuries. The styles of dress and clothing would see new trends emerge, ranging from long-toed shoes to plunging necklines."
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Chivalry in the Middle Ages - YouTube - 0 views

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    "Chivalric customs arose from the medieval knight's code of conduct, and were gradually adopted by aristocrats and society as a whole. This video traces some of the surprising early applications of chivalry through medieval illuminated manuscripts."
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Medieval manuscripts blog - 0 views

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    "What do Magna Carta, Beowulf and the world's oldest Bibles have in common? They are all cared for by the British Library's Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts Section. This blog publicises our digitisation projects and other activities"
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Empress Matilda and the anarchy: the problem of royal succession in medieval England - 0 views

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    "Introduction: A visitor to the Empress Matilda's tomb at Rouen might be mistaken in believing that its occupant had never sought the English throne in her own right. Yet in the long struggle which engulfed the kingdom after her father's death in 1135 this is exactly what she did. Matilda may indeed have been the greatest English heiress of the twelfth century to fail to secure her inheritance. Charles Beem remarks that Matilda's epitaph 'described the summit of earthly achievement to which a twelfth-century aristocratic woman could aspire, according to the dictate of a male-dominated feudal society'. Matilda's rule lasted less than seven months before she was unceremoniously driven out of London in the spring of 1141. Even so, her lordship bore many of the typical characteristics of royal administration, and with King Stephen imprisoned by her supporters Matilda for a time was recognised as the sole source of royal authority in the kingdom."
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Images of the Medieval City - 0 views

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    " What did medieval cities look like? Or more precisely, how did medieval people depict cities? Here are 15 images from the Middle Ages that show how the urban world looked like."
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Making Manuscripts - YouTube - 0 views

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    From the Getty Museum. Making parchment and illuminating manuscripts.
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The Medieval Understandings of Participation - 0 views

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    "Richard Cross, Rev. John A. O'Brien Chair in Philosophy (UND), and Stephen Gersh, Professor of Medieval Studies (UND), present on "The Medieval Understandings of Participation" at a Templeton Colloquium at the NDIAS on "Participation in God: Reassessing an Ancient Philosophical Idea and Its Contemporary Relevance." This colloquium took place March 18-20, 2014 at the University of Notre Dame and was conceived by Douglas Hedley, Templeton Fellow at the NDIAS and Reader in Hermeneutics and Metaphysics at the University of Cambridge."
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A New Set of Fourteenth Century Planetary Observations - 0 views

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    "Ever since antiquity astronomy has consisted of both theory and observation, but these two components have often received different treatments in the original sources. In the medieval period we find many texts that present theories (even new theories) for the motions of the Sun, the Moon, and the planets; and other texts that describe instruments (some newly invented) for making observations. Moreover, medieval scholars carefully read various works that survived from antiquity, notably Ptolemy's Almagest, and these treatises served as a guide for the scientific study of astronomy. In particular, Ptolemy described methods of determining the planetary models (or parts of them) from sets of dated observations, and he gave numerous examples (including many based on observations he himself made) which take up a major portion of his magnus opus. In this respect, however, the vast majority of his successors did not follow him, for we find surprisingly few planetary observations in the medieval astronomical corpus. (A similar paucity of observations of the Sun, the Moon, and eclipses has also been noted.) Indeed, in most astronomical tables compiled in the Middle Ages observations play no role, and it can be demonstrated that the tabular entries are largely based on earlier astronomical theories."
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Erik Kwakkel - 1 views

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Ten Medieval Inventions that Changed the World - 0 views

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    " Ten Inventions from the Middle Ages that have had lasting importance, even to the present-day."
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Five Medieval Books recommended by the Five-Minute Medievalist - 0 views

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    " here are just a few of the non-fiction books I've read and enjoyed. They reflect my interest in the UK and France (especially the fourteenth century), as you'll see."
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A Peripheral Matter?: Oceans in the East in Late-Medieval Thought, Report and Cartography - 0 views

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    "In the Navigatio sancti Brandani, the ocean voyage is imagined as a liminal phenomenon, suspended between earthly life in the terrestrial world and paradise, envisaged as an oceanic island, beyond it. Many famous medieval maps, such as the late thirteenth-century Hereford Map and its near-contemporary, the no longer extant Ebstorf world map, can be adduced to support the ocean's conceptually peripheral status in this period. Nevertheless, the genesis of the paper on which this article is based lay in a simple observation: that in a corpus of detailed world maps drawn in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries - the same period in which the Voyage of St Brendan and texts like it were circulating across Europe - the notion of the ocean sea as a   peripheral phenomenon is repeatedly and graphically counteracted."
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Ten Things You May Not Have Noticed in the Bayeux Tapestry - 0 views

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    take a second look at the Bayeaux Tapestry, and the many little details.
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Who were 'The Great' Rulers of the Middle Ages? - 0 views

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    " Many rulers of the Middle Ages got nicknames, ranging from the Magnificent to the Crazy. Some monarchs got the title 'The Great' - what did they do to deserve such an honour. Here is a little information about 13 'Great' medieval rulers:"
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Accession timeline of the cantons to the Swiss Confederation - 0 views

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    "This application shows the order in which all the 26 cantons joined the Swiss Confederation and it's based on Wikipedia and BFS datasources. Created by Vasile Coțovanu, the project it's powered by GeoAdmin API, Boostrap 3.0 and it's open-sourced on Github."
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Could Duke Phillip the Good of Burgundy have owned the Bayeux tapestry in 1430? - 0 views

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    "An entry in the Inventory of the Bayeux cathedral treasury records that in 1476 the church owned the following: Item une tente tres longue et estroicte de telle a broderie d'ymages et escripteaulx, faisans representation du Conquest d'Angleterre,"
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Herleva of Falaise, Mother of William the Conqueror - 0 views

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    "Legends states the young Duke Robert I of Normandy was on the walkway of his castle at Falaise looking down at the river and discovered a beautiful young girl washing clothes. He asked to see her and she became his mistress. She would become the mother of William the Conqueror."
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Medieval Images of the Human Body - 0 views

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    " By the later Middle Ages there was great interest in anatomy and how the body worked. Medieval people made illustrations to explain medical and anatomical issues of human body. Here is a list of medieval images of the whole or parts of the body, which offer a fascinating, unique and strange views from the Middle Ages."
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The Norman Conquest of England: The Alternative Histories - 0 views

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    "The story of the Norman Conquest was told by more than a few medieval chroniclers, including William of Jumièges, William of Poitiers, Orderic Vitalis, William of Malmesbury and John of Worcester. For a more visual account, one can turn to the Bayeux Tapestry to see how the events of 1066 were depicted. Historians trying to reconstruct the events of the invasion of England and the Battle of Hastings generally make use of these sources. However, there are other lesser-known accounts of the Norman Conquest. Here we present two of these works, both written over a hundred years after the Battle of Hastings."
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