We’ve got Courtney Matthews (she/they), a third-year PhD student at the University of Canterbury, here to share her recent publication about TTRPGs. Driven by her passion for D&D, her research looks a...

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The five-year NorseMap project aims to provide a greater understanding of how the Viking Age is perceived in different locations around the world.

Juxtaposing recent advances in Historical Game Studies with historical research on the commercialisation of the Third Reich in contemporary culture, this article treats the board game Secret Hitler...

This article argues that Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant recasts the Arthurian myth of British origins through what I deem a palimpsestic form of medievalism. This process of ‘rubbing and rewriting’...

Towards and beyond the ‘Fall’: rethinking Rome’s end

This essay argues that late medieval manuscript producers were both aware of and at times troubled by the ontological ambiguity of the medium in which they worked. Nelson Goodman’s aesthetic philos...

The transformations that shaped the transition to the “central” Middle Ages during the eleventh and twelfth centuries affected a wide range of structures across Italy and the post-Roman world. Histori...

Medieval military monks have become a regular sight at political rallies and marches

In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern...

A brief survey about what metadata formats people prefer to go along with their digitized medieval manuscripts. The results of this survey will be used to consider what metadata we make available thro...

© Giuseppe Rava “ego, in Dei omnipotentis auxilio Ahistulf, praecellentissimus rex Catholicaegentis Langobardorum” While doing my research on Lombard Italy, I happened upon several hist…