Limbs of One Body: How the Coronavirus Requires Sympathy Despite Social Distancing The Coronavirus has dislocated lives across the world, like an assassin killing thousands of people, yet it has also inspired people to be creative in art and poetry and to show sympathy for all those afflicted by this vicious virus. Asghar Seyed Gohrab • May 29, 2020
Van Blaffert naar Flappaert Over boekdrukkunst en de mislukking van een administratief experiment in Gouda (1490-1500). Robert Stein • May 15, 2020
Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate This blog post explores the historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games. Peter Alexander Kerkhof • May 01, 2020
Treasure hunting in databases: forgotten early medieval sculptures from Lochem It's not so bad to work from home. Online databases contain hidden treasures of medieval art: such as these two stone carvings from Lochem. Elizabeth den Hartog • April 17, 2020
Picture Perfect: The Life of a Fifteenth-Century Woodcut Early printers often re-used their woodcuts. Previously created images could find new homes in a variety of texts. This post traces the life of a particular image that became the ideal image for the title page of a “love letter” from Christ. Anna Dlabacová • March 20, 2020
Proverbial Pigs in the Middle Ages: Ten Medieval Proverbs Featuring Swine Swine make a frequent appearance in the proverbs of the Middle Ages; this blog post provides a fair sample of medieval piggish wisdom! Thijs Porck • March 06, 2020
Beards and Barbarians: Hair and identity in the Early Medieval West Bushy beards, drooping moustaches and flowing hair. What does the (facial) hair of Early Medieval monarchs tell us about their identity? Jip Barreveld • February 21, 2020
Love Magic and Rape Drugs in Late Medieval Italy Magical practices such as brewing love potions and performing necromantic rituals can be found in medieval literature as well as in books of medicine and theology. But how did they work? And were they really that innocuous? Marlisa den Hartog • February 07, 2020
Meeting the medieval villagers under the old oak tree A linguistic window on a fourteenth-century Brabantine village Peter Alexander Kerkhof • January 22, 2020
