Books to be written, books to be destroyed - Medieval News Roundup

Our collection of interesting news, videos and tweets about the Middle Ages. [ View the story "Books to be written, books to be destroy...

Sea Monsters, Bones, and Textbooks: Medieval News Roundup

The Bones of Charlemagne Swiss researchers believe they have confirmed that the 94 bones and bone fragments kept at Aachen Cathedral belong ...

Gutenberg, Executions, Medicis, Vikings, Hobbits and more - medieval news roundup

A medieval news roundup for the weekend... If you are a fan of Marshall McLuhan or have an interest in the history of printing, this intervi...

Reading, Insulting, Taxing, Finding and Stealing - medieval news roundup

What did people read in the Middle Ages? A new book is looking at how people in late-medieval London read. Arthur Bahr, a professor of liter...

Black Death, Northampton Castle find, and history-related crowd-funding projects

BoingBoing has just posted an article  Shedding light on the Black Death , which offers a good overview of recent research on the plague th...