The Middle Ages in Britain: A Student Conference

07/11/2015

Even though the last native speaker of Old English may have died over 900 years ago, the language of the Anglo-Saxons is making a comeback in modern cinema. This blog post calls attention to five T...

31/03/2015

Knowledge of Old English could save lives...

A one thousand year old Anglo-Saxon remedy for eye infections has been found to kill the modern-day superbug MRSA in an unusual research collaboration at The University of Nottingham.

22/03/2014

Bonn rocks!

28/02/2014

Are you in tune for SEM (Munich) and the Student Conference (Bonn) coming up this month?

from the album The Canterbury Tales Remixed

13/02/2014

when i saw and heard chaoscontrolled123's wonderful post about the 600 years old butt song from hell i just knew that i had to bring the piece to life i present to you, the butt song from hell, with...

12/02/2014

The creator of NBC's Dracula, Cole Haddon, is developing a new Robin Hood series for BBC America. You're going to want to hear this...

06/02/2014

Turkish artist and illustrator, Murat Palta, has designed a series of Ottoman motifs for this graduation thesis that blend contemporary Western cinema with traditional Ottoman motifs in the miniature art style.

09/12/2013

A series of late-medieval wall paintings can now be seen again after being hidden away for hundreds of years underneath layers of limewash.

07/12/2013

http://www.stpeterslist.com/11939/when-santa-punched-a-heretic-in-the-face-13-memes-on-st-nicholas/

During the First Ecumenical Council of Nicea (AD 325), Arius was called upon to defend his position on the inferiority of Christ. Saint Nicholas just couldn’t listen to all of Arius’ nonsense and so he stood up and laid in to Arius with his fist.

29/10/2013

We should all look under our parking lots!

Archaeological research has backed up findings that a Viking assembly ground, known as a Þing, is located under a car park in northern Scotland.

23/06/2013

Jincy made this for me. It is wonderful! (Google it!)