Saturday, December 24, 2011

Away in A Manger

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Happy Christmas to all!  The ox and ass peer at the newborn Jesus. New York, Morgan Library, M751, C13 France. The ox and ass look...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Extra! Extra! Hildegard of Bingen to Become A Doctor of The Church!

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Hildegard receiving her divine visions. From an early C13 manuscript of the Liber divinorum operum Great news! The Vatican Insider repor...
Monday, December 12, 2011

Holiday Gift Guide: For the Watch Enthusiast

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H/t to JB, Medieval Robots' London correspondent, for passing this along. The geniuses at Hublot , the Swiss horological firm, have buil...
Thursday, November 17, 2011

It's "American Chopper" Meets "A Knight's Tale"!

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H/t to MB, my informant on all aspects of modern-day medieval warfare, for the heads-up about the Knights of Mayhem . Sadly, NatGeo is not...
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Friday, November 11, 2011

What's in Your Wallet?

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The most recent issue of National Geographic has an article on the Staffordshire treasure , a massive Anglo-Saxon treasure-hoard, which was...
Friday, November 4, 2011

Forging and Forgery

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I gave a talk earlier this week on twelfth century neoplatonism and literary depictions of medieval automata and their creators in twelfth a...
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Sunday, October 23, 2011

Medieval Genomics: The Black Death

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Apes play ring-around-the-rosy. Walters Art Museum. This recent paper in Nature reveals that the pathogen that caused the Black Death...