The Middle Ages in Britain: A Student Conference

Old English is alive! Five TV series and movies that use Old English 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...

Knowledge of Old English could save lives...

Anglo-Saxon medicine is able to kill modern-day superbug, researchers find - Medievalists.net 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.

Bonn rocks!

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

Beowulf, by Baba Brinkman from the album The Canterbury Tales Remixed

Hieronymus Bosch - The Music Written on This Dude's Butt [Choral Arrangement] 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...

New Robin Hood series in development 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...

Famous Movie Scenes In The Style Of The Ottoman Empire - WHOA 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.

Beautiful medieval wall paintings restored in Welsh church - Medievalists.net A series of late-medieval wall paintings can now be seen again after being hidden away for hundreds of years underneath layers of limewash.

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

When Santa Punched a Heretic in the Face: 13 Memes on St. Nicholas | St. Peter's List 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.

We should all look under our parking lots!

What has been found now under a car park? A Viking Þing - Medievalists.net Archaeological research has backed up findings that a Viking assembly ground, known as a Þing, is located under a car park in northern Scotland.

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