Please turn JavaScript on
Medievalists.net icon

Medievalists.net

Want to stay in touch with the latest updates from Medievalists.net? That's easy! Just subscribe clicking the Follow button below, choose topics or keywords for filtering if you want to, and we send the news to your inbox, to your phone via push notifications or we put them on your personal page here on follow.it.

Reading your RSS feed has never been easier!

Website title: Medievalists.net - Where the Middle Ages Begin

Is this your feed? Claim it!

Publisher:  Unclaimed!
Message frequency:  2.81 / day

Message History

New research suggests that a mysterious skeleton found in a Roman sarcophagus at Westminster Abbey may belong to an Anglo-Saxon abbot.

Read full story
How were medieval armies organised? David Bachrach examines the Battle of Ane in 1227 to explore the roles of knights, professional soldiers and peasants.

Read full story
A conversation with Lea Niccolai on the challenge faced by emperors and theologians who claimed authority on the basis of their religious positions while simultaneously admitting that the truth about God lay beyond reach. How did they cope with this self-professed ignorance or deploy it as an asset in polemics, e.g., against heretics who presumed to know too much?

Read full story
Archaeologists uncover a 10th-century stone building at the lost royal palace of Helfta in Germany, revealing new details about life under Otto the Great.

Read full story
A fifteenth-century portal featuring sculpted portraits of Milan's medieval duchesses has been restored at the Certosa di Pavia in northern Italy.

Read full story