The ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
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A peer-reviewed academic reference site written by medieval scholars, offering encyclopedia essays, full online textbooks, primary source translations, and teaching materials covering medieval history, culture, and religion for students and instructors.
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medievalists.net
Medievalists.net is a hub for medieval history, offering news, features, and scholarly articles on the Middle Ages, including archaeology, culture, and literature. It also provides book reviews, interviews, and event updates for researchers and enthusiasts.
Mapping Gothic France
An interactive digital humanities project from Columbia University and Vassar College mapping over 200 Gothic cathedrals in 12th- and 13th-century France, combining high-resolution photography, 360-degree views, and scholarly narrative on architecture and history.
Magic in the Middle Ages
Magical thought has always attracted human imagination. In this course we will introduce you to the Middle Ages through a wide conception of magic. Students will have an approach to medieval culture, beliefs and practices from the perspective of History and History of Science. Popular magic, as well as learned magic (alchemy, geomancy and necromancy) will be addressed. Moreover, we will also deal with how eastern practices and texts influenced western culture. In July 2016, the course will contain a brand-new module devoted to astrology. Magic in the Middle Ages offers a captivating overview of medieval society and promotes reflection about certain stereotypes associated with this period. At the end of the course, the students: a) will have overcome the usual prejudices about the Middle Ages, b) will be able to analyze historical documentation from the Middle Ages and recognize the most common patterns of juridical documents regarding witchcraft, and c) will be capable of distinguishing between popular magic and the magic of the learned people; will have a notion of which spiritual practices were allowed in medieval Europe and which ones were related to the devil, and will be aware of the link between a cultural product and the society that produced it. This course is taught in English, although subtitles in English, Catalan and Spanish will also be provided. COURSE SYLLABUS Week 1. Introduction to medieval magic (Pau Castell). Week 2. Magic & Heresy (Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel). Week 3. From Magic to Witchcraft (Pau Castell). Week 4. Magic in Islam (Godefroid de Callataÿ and Sébastien Moureau). Week 5. Astrology & Geomancy (Theo Loinaz, Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel, Godefroid de Callataÿ and Blanca Villuendas). © Gemma Pellissa Prades (coord.), Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel and Joana Palau Mumany Magic in the Middle Ages by Gemma Pellissa Prades (coord.), Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel and Joana Palau Mumany is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
The Medieval Podcast
Interview podcast from Medievalists.net in which host Danièle Cybulskie talks with historians about the Middle Ages, from Byzantium and the Vikings to warfare, religion, medicine and daily life. Listeners gain an accessible grounding in current scholarship on the medieval world.
The Golden Age of Islam
Chronological history podcast by David DiMeo, a Harvard-trained Arabic professor at Western Kentucky University, tracing the early Muslim community, the caliphates, and their cultural, intellectual and scientific achievements. Listeners gain a narrative grasp of medieval Islamic civilisation and its relations with the West.
Black Death
The Black Death is remembered as one of the most devastating catastrophes in human history – a pandemic that swept across continents and killed millions. But where did it come from? How did it travel so quickly through towns and countryside? And did people at the time understand just how terrifying the illness would be? In this three-part series , Emily Briffett and historian Thomas Asbridge – author of The Black Death: A Global History, published by Allen Lane – trace the origins and spread of the deadly disease.