Basil Dragonstrike @BasilDragonstrike@medievalist.masto.host

Textiles and clothes from Byzantium---two museum shows:
http://www.medievalists.net/2019/09/two-medieval-textile-exhibitions-open-in-washington-d-c/

Have you ever come across the phrase "broken on the wheel"? This is what that means:
http://www.medievalists.net/2019/09/archaeologists-discover-medieval-man-broken-on-the-wheel/

Do movie makers and book writers distort history for a "better" story? Yes. Is that a modern-only bad habit? No.
http://www.medievalists.net/2019/09/how-richard-the-lionheart-got-his-name-the-epic-version/

Want to be a berserker? It's not the bearskin that does the job:
http://www.medievalists.net/2019/09/did-henbane-make-berserkers-go-berserk/

Irish dictionary:
http://www.medievalists.net/2019/09/lost-irish-words-rediscovered-including-the-word-for-oozes-pus/
(some of those should've stayed lost)

Health, Medieval style (which looks rather modern, mostly):
http://www.medievalists.net/2019/09/six-medieval-rules-for-healthy-living/

Last but far from least --- It's 14th century London, and everyone's white, right? Right??
Wrong!!:
http://www.medievalists.net/2019/09/black-death-burials-reveal-the-diversity-of-londons-medieval-population/
Note especially the mixed-ancestry folks.

Save up your pennies, kids, they'll be valuable some day!:
http://www.medievalists.net/2019/09/huge-anglo-norman-coin-hoard-discovered-in-england/

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/08/the-assassination-of-ahmad-ibn-ismail-power-struggles-in-the-samanid-empire/

Students have always needed money from Dad. Always:
http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/dear-dad-send-money-letters-from-students-in-the-middle-ages/

Medieval road trips were not fun:
http://www.medievalists.net/2019/08/travel-middle-ages-road/

The ol' Robin Hood/Sherwood Forest link may be a misunderstanding:
http://www.medievalists.net/2019/08/robin-hood-sherwood-forest-barnsdale/

Some crime-fiction writers make their lives harder by making their detectives medieval:
http://www.medievalists.net/2019/08/the-complicated-case-of-medieval-crime-fiction/

Not much bunny-fur bikinis mentioned:
http://www.medievalists.net/2019/08/pennsic/

The Black Death is rampaging through Europe; where do you want to be? Poland! Poland? Poland:
http://www.medievalists.net/2019/08/black-death-did-not-reach-poland-according-to-peat-bog-evidence/

Not all the Crusaders were western Europeans:
http://www.medievalists.net/2019/04/first-genetic-study-of-crusaders-reveals-diverse-origins/

You've cut off some body part from some Anglo-Saxon. What punishment does the law lay down?:
http://www.medievalists.net/2018/01/anglo-saxon-punishments-price-pinky/

Interesting details in the Bayeux Tapestry:
http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/ten-things-may-noticed-bayeux-tapestry/

Post-SCA-period, but interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipzCYr8pySY&feature=youtu.be

Medieval rules for jousting: how to tell the winner:
http://www.medievalists.net/2015/01/medieval-rules-jousting/

A test on Vikings I hope you can all ace:
http://www.medievalists.net/2018/08/can-you-spot-the-viking-facts-from-the-fiction/
(I might laugh at you if you don't)

One of the less common writing materials:
http://www.medievalists.net/2018/08/medieval-daily-life-birchbark/

"If you want it to sell, you've got to give it a good title":
http://www.medievalists.net/2019/08/ten-fabulous-medieval-book-titles/
This one is a lot of fun; enjoy! :-)

The staff of life, medieval style:
http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/bread-in-the-middle-ages/

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,77881,polish-researcher-identified-possible-grave-slavic-warrior-woman-denmark.html

I'm no archeologist, but I'm not sure the case for this being a Slav is that much. I accept that's a South Baltic ax. But the presense of an Arabic coin (I'd be surprised if there's only one) shows this person was recipient of goods traded from far away---why not an ax? Also, I hope a forensic archeologist has checked the sex of the bones. ;-)

Still, I may be too doubtful. It's good to see evidence of mobility and trade in what too many people think was a "Dark Age".

How to be foul-mouthed, medievally:
http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/by-gods-bones-medieval-swear-words/

Hey presto-chango!
http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/medieval-magic-tricks/

Info on what medieval warfare was actually like, and on one of the most interesting writers from back then.
http://www.medievalists.net/2019/07/warfare-during-crusades/

And you thought the SCA camps fancy:

https://daily.jstor.org/the-movable-tent-cities-of-the-ottoman-empire/

In just over 12 hours from when I write, an author will finally get the recognition she deserves:

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/07/margaret-paston-woman-of-letters-commemorated-after-six-centuries/

Thye did indeed burn books in the Middle Ages, but it was more nuanced than most people realize:
http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/burn-books-middle-ages/

And it was a lot less prevelent than you might think; the real age of book burning started in the self-so-called Renaissance.

From Medivalists.net:
Lead pollution in the air can teach us about history!:
http://www.medievalists.net/2019/07/what-lead-pollution-in-arctic-ice-shows-can-tell-us-about-the-middle-ages/

Vikings like money:
http://www.medievalists.net/2019/07/viking-currency/

Cat pics were flooding media well before the internet:
http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/cat-pics-from-the-middle-ages/