Tag: Medieval History
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Mansa Musa: Reorienting Assumptions of African Development in Mali
Written by Amy Hendrie. According to present value, Mansa Musa, the fourteenth-century leader of the Mali Empire, was the richest man who has ever lived. Despite this, his name is largely missing from the Brittish curriculum. Amy Hendrie explores the life of legacy of the man at the head of West Africa’s largest empire.
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The Origins of Tattooing: A Brief Overview
Written by Etta Coleman. The art of tattooing has a long and nuanced history, intimately linked with the cultures who permanently inscribed ink into the flesh. Etta Coleman explores the origins of this art form and its global spread.
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Anna Komnene: The Struggles of a Female Historian in Medieval Times
Written by Dido Papikinou. Sources from the medieval period are almost entirely male-centred – written by men, written for men, and written about men. To examine, therefore, the account of a woman on the First Crusade, is an opportunity Dido Papikinou considers invaluable to understanding the female experience of this period.
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The Princes in the Tower – is Britain’s biggest mystery any closer to being solved?
Written by Sophie Whitehead. The mystery of the princes of the tower has remained unsolved for over 500 years. With new evidence and theories from an Dorset church, what truly happened to the young boys?
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Margaret of Anjou – Bad Queen to Bad-Ass: The Evolution of Image through Literature
Written by Sophie Whitehead. Who was Margaret of Anjou? The question has largely been left to the portrayals of Shakespeare, leaving much misogynist tropes of the ‘she-wolf’ lingering.
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Victorian Medievalism and the Palace of Westminster
Written by Alice Goodwin. The Palace of Westminster stands as the home of Parliament, containing thousands of years of history. But the majority of this great Palace was designed and built in the nineteenth century, encapsulating a cultural trend now referred to as medievalism.
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Review: Sistersong, Lucy Holland (2021)
Written by Melissa Kane. Lucy Holland’s Sistersong is an enchanting piece of historical fantasy that digs into early Anglo-Saxon Britain.
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The Epistemic Mystery of the Cathars
Written by Inge Erdal. A Christian sect deemed heretical by the Catholic Church and routinely persecuted, the history of the Cathars is a complicated one. With regional variations and conflicting historiography, approaching this particular moment in religious history requires an understanding of the mutability of the human experience.
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