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Social History

Daily life in the medieval town hall

Historians have often refrained from looking behind the front door and façades of yet well-known medieval monuments: town halls. What was going on inside these public buildings?

Cultural History

Pig Pharma: Some Uses of Swine in Early Medieval English Medicine

In early medieval England, pigs had a variety of uses. More than just something to put on a plate, pork also had medical properties, as this blog post reveals.

The first dialogue in Dutch as a medieval podcast?

The dialogue as a literary genre has sunk into oblivion, but new forms of scripted spontaneous conversation (like podcasts) abide to the same rules as their medieval predecessors.

Archaeology · Socio-Economic History

Tonnen en vaten: de zeecontainers van de late middeleeuwen

Wat hebben zeecontainers en middeleeuwse tonnen en vaten met elkaar gemeen? En welke rol spelen deze “verpakkingsmaterialen” in de ontwikkeling van de handelseconomie vanaf de middeleeuwen tot vandaag de dag?

Art History · Archaeology

The cathedral of Faras: Rediscovering the submerged Nubian ‘site of remembrance’

Have you ever visited an underwater cathedral? This post takes you for a stroll on the bottom of Lake Nubia, where rest the remains of one of the most extraordinary buildings ever excavated in medieval Nubia.

Archaeology

On Beads and Boats: Merovingian beads travelling through time and space

What do beads and boats have in common? In Merovingian Europe, just about everything. Just like boats, Merovingian beads travelled through time and space, across huge distances, into other worlds and back again.