medieval history

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/15/2020
  

  Medieval Europeans Didn’t Understand how the Plague Spread. Their Response Wasn’t so Different from Ours Now

  "As we spoke with historians and searched for the plague’s lasting marks, what stood out most were the similarities, 672 years apart."

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• SOURCE: TIME
  10/6/2020
  

  The Overlooked Queer History of Medieval Christianity

  by Roland Betancourt

  An attentive reading of the record shows that same-sex intimacy, gender fluidity, and diverse sexual identities were prevalent among early Christians, contrary to the claims made by some fundamentalists today that these represent deviations from historical norms. 

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• SOURCE: Texarkana Gazette
  9/19/2020
  

  History Professor Describes His Experience With COVID-19, Teaching In Historic Times

  A local professor specializing in medieval history likely never thought he'd experience unprecedented times that somehow resemble living through a plague.

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• SOURCE: BBC
  5/14/2020
  

  Battle of Lewes: England's First Fight for Democracy?

  King Henry's defeat led to a brief experiment in governing where the king's powers were delegated to a parliament while he remained head of state.

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• SOURCE: Contingent
  4/25/2020
  

  Queen of Heaven, Empress of Hell

  by Vanessa R. Corcoran

  Contemporary depictions of Mary tend to be gentle in their holiness, but Christians centuries ago envisioned her as a powerful agent who fought for their salvation.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  4/29/2020
  

  How Humans Have Reacted To Pandemics Through History – A Visual Guide

  From arguments about masks to riots outside hospitals, history shows some common threads in the human response to pandemics.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/6/20
  

  How two women pulled off a medieval manuscript heist in post-war Germany

  by Jennifer Bain

  After the Dresden bombings, the Soviet Army seized and inspected the surviving vault. The first bank official to enter the vault afterwards found it pillaged, with only one manuscript remaining. The bank could never confirm if the vault was emptied in an official capacity or if it was plundered.

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• Sacred Objects: Medieval History and Star Wars

  by Stephenie McGucken

  For European believers, relics allowed worshipers to encounter some aspect of an object of devotion—a holy person or place—when the object itself was physically unavailable or geographically inaccessible.

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• SOURCE: Cornell Chronicle
  12/5/19
  

  Historian and medievalist Brian Tierney dies at 97

  Tierney was a past president of the American Catholic Historical Association, a member of the American Philosophical Society, a corresponding fellow of the British Academy, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Medieval Academy of America.

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• SOURCE: Time
  10/30/19
  

  The Medieval History Behind Our Halloween Fascination With Skeletons

  by Jack Hartnell

  As such powerful markers of death, the medieval bones could also be made into more fantastical things.

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• 7/21/19
  

  Exploring the Curious Sources of Medieval Law: An Interview with Acclaimed Historian Robin Chapman Stacey

  by Robin Lindley

  An Interview with Acclaimed Historian Robin Chapman Stacey on Law and the Imagination in Medieval Wales and More

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  6/28/19
  

  Medieval History Goes to War With Itself

  While medievalists battle, white nationalists try to co-opt the past.

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• 5/12/19
  

  In Dalmatia, Distant Pasts Influence the Present

  by Erik Moshe

  The ancient past is usually well-hidden underground. The medieval past rarely makes an appearance. However, in Dalmatia, ancient, medieval and the early modern past are inextricably intertwined, and visible on every corner. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/5/19
  

  Medieval Scholars Joust With White Nationalists. And One Another.

  Since the 2016 presidential election, scholars have hotly debated the best way to counter the “weaponization” of the Middle Ages by a rising tide of far-right extremists.

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• SOURCE: Time
  4/25/19
  

  The Real History of Medieval Knights Makes Brienne's Big Game of Thrones Moment Even More Meaningful

  For Joëlle Rollo-Koster — a professor of medieval history at the University of Rhode Island--Brienne has long drawn comparisons to Joan of Arc.

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• SOURCE: Epoch Times
  4/29/19
  

  Medieval Historian: Low Taxes Work

  Ronald Reagan was a fan of Ibn Khaldun.

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• SOURCE: Science Magazine
  3/6/19
  

  The Black Death may have transformed medieval societies in sub-Saharan Africa

  Some researchers point to new evidence from archaeology, history, and genetics to argue that the Black Death likely did sow devastation in medieval sub-Saharan Africa. 

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• SOURCE: Vox
  2/25/19
  

  Stop calling Trump “medieval.” It’s an insult to the Middle Ages.

  by Eric Weiskott

  It’s not only ahistorical. It obscures uniquely modern evils.

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• SOURCE: New Republic
  1/14/19
  

  What’s So Controversial About a Medieval Nun’s Teeth?

  How an archaeological discovery involving lapis lazuli and an 11th-century skeleton turned into an online drama.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  1/9/19
  

  A Blue Clue In Medieval Teeth Suggests Women Helped Create Lavish Books Too

  The discovery adds to a growing recognition that women, and not just monks, labored as the anonymous scribes who painstakingly copied manuscripts and decorated the pages to dazzle the eye.