1+ hour, 8+ min ago   (139+ words) By Nicola Di Cosmo and Lorenzo Pubblici As two powers expanded, Venice eastward and the Mongol Empire westward, their interests converged around trade. This book explores their diplomacy and commercial ties, revealing how the Black Sea became a centre of…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (305+ words) Icelandic sagas are a unique form of medieval literature that can be difficult to understand. This book uses ideas about genre, including some drawn from film studies, to offer new ways of reading and interpreting them. This book offers an…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (169+ words) Edited by Bita Pourvash Aga Khan Museum ISBN: 978-1-926473-21-5 When most people think of games and sports in the Middle Ages, chess and jousting probably come to mind. This book, and the exhibition on which it is based, reveal that medieval…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (179+ words) Medievalists.net Tolkien and his Medieval Sources is a six-week online course starting on June 11th, with live sessions each Thursday from 5:00 to 7:00 pm EST. For more than half a century J.R.R. Tolkien has gripped the public imagination with his tales of…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (255+ words) A new historical role-playing game is aiming to immerse players in the realities of late medieval Europe, allowing them to step into the lives of more than a thousand real historical figures from the era of the Hundred Years’ War....

4+ mon, 9+ hour ago   (202+ words) In the ancient and medieval worlds, blacksmiths had to transform raw iron ore into workable metal. This book provides a practical guide to that process, focusing on the use of a furnace known as a bloomery. This is very much…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1639+ words) For millions of people today, the Middle Ages are first encountered not in books or classrooms but through video games. Titles like Assassin’s Creed, Crusader Kings, and Age of Empires allow players to explore castles, lead armies, and rule kingdoms…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (158+ words) Medievalists.net A conversation with Kim Bowes about her recent book, Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent, which presents a brilliant new model of the Roman imperial economy, specifically for how the majority of the population experienced…...