Think you can crack medieval codes? 🔎

In the Middle Ages, manuscript scribes employed codes to express complex thoughts, indicate hierarchies, represent abstract concepts like music and time, and make the document more playful and engaging for the reader: http://gty.art/44k25Oy

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One of a kind 7th Century gold coin found in field

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yg85nd5r9o

#AngloSaxons #Numismatics #MiddleAges

Another expert answers questions about a historical period video. In the one Professor of English and Medieval Literature Dr. Dorsey Armstrong answers questions about the Middle Ages.

A 19-minute video: https://youtu.be/7x8IW3XnYfo

#History #MiddleAges

Viking-era silver treasure and farm discovered in Täby, Sweden

Archaeologists from Arkeologerna, a division of the Swedish History Museums, have uncovered a remarkable Viking Age site in Täby, just north of Stockholm, revealing a massive farmstead, a burial ground, and an extraordinary silver treasure buried over a millennium ago...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/06/viking-era-silver-treasure-discovered-in-taby-sweden/

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European folklore claimed that "cynocephaly" (dog-headed people) inhabited far-off lands. They were frequently depicted as aggressive and violent, barking and howling. However, a few cynocephaly became Christian. Most famously, St. Christopher was sometimes depicted as a cynocephalus.

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Random book from our home library:

📖: The Wandering Saints of the Early Middle Ages by Eleanor Duckett

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Ready for a trip back in time? Our latest article takes you deep into the heart of the Middle Ages in Luxembourg to explore the majestic Beaufort Castle.

👉 Read our full article and let yourself be transported: https://jason-edwards.fr/beaufort-castle-medieval-ruins/

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Alte Universität in Marburg/Deutschland mit Altem Brauhaus
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Legendary Ten Seconds is back with a new album titled A Ricardian Argosy.

🎵 Music inspired by the Missing Princes project.

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Se podría decir que el conejo panadero está sembrado 😛.📙Lansdowne MS 451, f. 6 #marginalia #edadmedia #middleages

#OTD in 1431 - Hundred Years' War: Rouen, France, 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal.

Joan of Arc was canonized in 1920 by Pope Benedict XV

#medieval #history #middleages

Medieval Fogge: In Defence of the Middle Ages

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/making-history/medieval-fogge-defence-middle-ages

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The #USA is getting crazier and crazier. Back to the #middleAges.

A medieval woman was executed and displayed on a London riverbank.

A skeleton found in London records a brutal killing about 1200 years ago, thought to be a rare example of a judicial execution of a woman in medieval England.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250527-a-medieval-woman-was-executed-and-displayed-on-a-london-riverbank?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Archaeology #London #UK #MiddleAges #History

We always think women stayed in the background during medieval times, but they had a surprising amount of power behind the scenes. https://flip.it/SLMtp9 #history #medieval #middleages #contentcreator