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Medieval Clues Point to Lost Viking Battlefield
Medieval accounts may help identify Castle Hill in Devon as the long-lost site of the Battle of Cynuit, where Anglo-Saxon forces defeated a Viking army in 878.

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The Fall of King Arthur of Britain in Giovanni Boccaccio’s On the Downfall of the Famous
Giovanni Boccaccio uses the tale of the rise and fall of King Arthur to teach the fickleness of fortune and the peril of pridefulness. Christopher Berard and Morris Tichenor provide a new translation of this once influential but now overlooked medieval retelling of Arthur’s downfall.

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Japan’s Early Female Emperors
A study of Japan’s early female emperors challenges the idea that they served merely as temporary rulers preserving the throne for male heirs.

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World’s Largest Byzantine Studies Congress Coming to Vienna
The world’s largest Byzantine studies congress comes to Vienna this August, bringing together scholars from more than 50 countries.

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New Medieval Books: A Medieval Cabinet of Curiosities
It is often said that every object tells a story. This book brings that idea to life through fifty items from the Middle Ages, ranging from spoons to shields.

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