The Sawley Map is currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the medieval drawing exhibit, “Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages.”
The museum has a post about it on its blog, along with an image of the map. According to the post, the map was “created by a twelfth-century English monk […]
Filed under: Middle Ages History, Medieval History on June 22nd, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Banneret
1) A military rank, superior to that of a knight. Bannerets bore square banners, rather than long pennons.
(Prestwich, Michael. Armies and Warfare in the Middle Ages: The English Experience, 347)
2) Lord entitled to have a banner, and drawing higher wages of war than an ordinary knight.
(Frame, Robin. Colonial Ireland, 1169-1369, 144)
*term definition retrieved […]
Filed under: Middle Ages History, Medieval Glossary, Medieval History on June 20th, 2009 | No Comments »
Medieval drawing exhibit, “Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages,” on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“The 50 little-seen works on view span nearly five centuries and reveal medieval drawing to be vital, evolving, remarkably diverse and essential to the medium’s Renaissance blossoming. The medieval period is often compared with its successor and […]
Filed under: Middle Ages History, Medieval History on June 19th, 2009 | No Comments »
“Bulgarian archaeologists have discovered the silver and gold casing of a medieval book in the yard of the St. Peter and St. Paul church in the city of Veliko Tarnovo.”
Read more …
Filed under: Archaeology, Middle Ages History, Medieval History on June 18th, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“Baltasar Kormakur, Iceland’s best known film director, has started work on a new high-budget Viking movie. This will be the most expensive film ever made in Iceland with an estimated budget of 60 million dollars.”
Read the rest of the article at IceNews.
Hopefully, this movie will be better than Outlander, a medieval viking / sci-fi fantasy […]
Filed under: Middle Ages History, Medieval History, Books and Movies on June 18th, 2009 | No Comments »
Fought between the armies of Henry II and rebellious factions in Normandy, Brittany and England, the Anglo-Norman rebellion takes only a brief page in the volumes of middle ages history. Lasting approximately two years, Henry II battled against his own sons to maintain control of his kingdom.
His eldest three sons, Henry and Richard (later the […]
Filed under: Battles, Wars, Middle Ages History, Medieval History on June 17th, 2009 | No Comments »
Castles of Europe: From Charlemagne to the Renaissance
By William Anderson, Photographs by Wim Swaan
Copyright 1970 - Paul Elek Productions, London; Random House, USA
Castles of Europe: From Charlemagne to the Renaissance is an older book — at least the edition I own — and you’ll likely have to find a used copy if you want to […]
Filed under: Castles, Middle Ages History, Medieval History, Book Reviews on June 16th, 2009 | 10 Comments »
I just finished taking this quiz to determine which fantasy writer I am similar to. I normally don’t take a lot of quizzes, but this one was entertaining and thought provoking and accurate. It’s a 36 question quiz that took me about thirty minutes and made me actually think about my answers before choosing them. […]
Filed under: Fantasy on June 16th, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Forsaken Kingdom: City of Prophecy by Peter James Dudek
Hardcover: 316 pages
Publisher: Carnation City Press (November 11, 2008)
ISBN-10: 0615232019
Product Description:
The days have grown dark in the lands of Arvalast. The people have forgotten about their king, and the light is fading from the countryside. As the stories of the King of Arvalast and his long ago […]
Filed under: Christian Fiction, Fantasy on June 15th, 2009 | No Comments »
On this day, June 15th, in medieval history:
1330 - Birth of Edward (”The Black Prince”), Prince of Wales and eldest son of King Edward III of England
1381 - Death of Wat Tyler, leader of the English Peasants’ Revolt; Sir William Walworth, the mayor of London, killed Wat during a meeting with King Richard II
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