De doop van Jacoba van Beieren

Jacoba van Beieren is een icoon van de Nederlandse middeleeuwse geschiedenis. Toch kennen we haar exacte geboortedag niet. Recent is aan het licht gekomen op welke dag ze werd gedoopt en wie haar peetouders waren. Vanuit een middeleeuws perspectief was dat vele malen belangrijker.

Margreet Brandsma • July 16, 2021

Imagining Zoroaster’s Domestic Life

How did medieval Zoroastrians imagine the family of Zoroaster, the founding figure of their religion?

Kiyan Foroutan • January 08, 2021

Setting the early medieval world on fire

Early medieval cremation burials have long been seen as the remains of non-Christian peoples. Recent research shows this narrative does not comfortably fit the archaeology of that period.

Femke Lippok • August 07, 2020

Fake news in fifteenth-century Rome: The miraculous discovery of the Titulus Crucis relic

There is nothing new about "fake news", as this post about various reports on a "miraculous discovery" in fifteenth-century Rome reveals!

Marianne Ritsema van Eck • May 11, 2018

"Alber, I beseech thee": Healing magic from the grave

Medieval textual amulets, made out of metal or parchment, were worn around the neck to ward off evil powers.

Elizabeth den Hartog • March 16, 2018

Who’s That Guy? Identity Crisis in a Fifteenth-century Woodcut

In fifteenth-century illustrated printed books printers regularly re-used their illustrations. When working with this material, a feeling of déjà-vu is not uncommon. But sometimes you recognize just one person, and you ask yourself: Who’s that guy?

Anna Dlabacová • January 19, 2018

Dolls for Adults

Dolls as devotional aids, liturgical props and objects of desire: on the various ways medieval adults interacted with dolls and lifelike sculptures.

Lieke Smits • November 10, 2017

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