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Medieval matters blog
Medieval matters blog
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Medieval(ish) matters #15: What’s lurking in the background of medieval maps? And what did medieval people
really
know about the wider world?
Medieval
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Medieval(ish) matters #14: What did an aristocratic household eat in the Middle Ages? And who was Eleanor de Montfort?
Medieval
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Medieval(ish) matters #13: Why aren’t monuments to medieval figures included in the statues debate, and was there racism in the Middle Ages?
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Medieval(ish) matters #12: secrets of the famous Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
Medieval
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Medieval(ish) matters #9: Do early medieval Irish texts shed light on prehistoric incest?
Medieval
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Medieval(ish) matters #8: Did medieval people care about the time? And did they get bored?
Medieval
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Medieval(ish) matters #7: what it meant to be ‘blue’ in the Middle Ages (and more killer rabbits)
Viking
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Medieval(ish) matters #6: Viking military mind games, Anglo-Saxon mind maps, and embroidery before the Bayeux Tapestry
Medieval
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Medieval(ish) matters #5: chivalry, medieval killer rabbits and prisoners of war in the 15th century
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Medieval
What was it like to be a Prisoner of War during the Hundred Years’ War?
Medieval
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Medieval(ish) matters #4: back to
Braveheart
, Viking river boats, Picts, and the Crusades
Early medieval
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Medieval(ish) matters #3: the salmon of knowledge, rolling Roman mosaics, eels, and Crusades
Medieval
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Medieval(ish) matters #2: arrows in the eye,
The Last Kingdom
, Viking dogs
Medieval
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Medieval matters #1:
The Last Kingdom
, Robin Hood and how to learn Old Norse in lockdown