What's New on Medievalists.net

Here are some of the latest additions to our main website: Medievalists.net

Interview with Conor Kostick, author of The Social Structure of the First Crusade

Interview with Guy Geltner, author of The Medieval Prison: A Social History

Interview with Lisa Jefferson, author of The Medieval Account Books of the Mercers of London

We have also started a section devoted to the upcoming International Congress on Medieval Studies, which includes an interview with Elizabeth Carnell, Congress Coordinator

We have added our first primary source to the website - an English translation of the complete text of The Saga of Aron Hjorleifsson

Today we will be passing the 500 mark in number of articles on our database of medieval articles.  Some of the recent additions include:

Beliefs about Human Sexual Function in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Slavery in Anglo-Saxon England

Irrigation and Hydraulic Technology in Islamic Spain: Methodological Considerations

Rethinking the Role of the Condottieri on the Bloodless and Bloody Battlefields of Renaissance

Latest Videos include:

Byzantine Greek Fire

Hereford Mappa Mundi

Inventions from Ancient China: Gunpowder