History. Ancient Greenland mystery has simple answer
There are many theories: they were starved off by a cooling climate, wiped out by pirates or Inuit hunters, or perhaps blended into Inuit society as their own came unglued.
Now scientists are pretty sure they have the answer: they simply up and left.

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I’m not sure when it came back, exactly, or why it vanished in the first place, but Gothic Eye is back online. (It’s got line drawings of tomb effigies & suchlike from the later Middle Ages.)

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The woman who helped bring the York Mystery Plays back to the city for the first time in more than 400 years receives an MBE in the New Year Honours.
Actress Jane Oakshott led the first authentic reconstruction of the medieval shows for centuries in 1994, directing wagon plays performed by the people of York in […]

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Thomas Marks reviews The King’s Glass: a Story of Tudor Power and Secret Art by Carola Hicks
Medieval Cambridge was a grubby slum in which scholars dodged pigs and puddles in cramped lanes, and town and gown contended with one another - and with the unsavoury miasma that simmered over the town’s defensive ditch.
At the heart […]

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New York Museum Shows Off the Beaten Path describes two exhibits with medieval artwork — Apocalypse Then: Medieval Illuminations from the Morgan at the Morgan Library and Museum, and the Early Gothic Hall at The Cloisters.

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For more than a century, scholars could not believe that the exquisite Nativity and Last Judgment diptych was genuine. They assumed it to have been carved in the 18th or 19th centuries, when Gothic-style ivories were made. Carbon14 dating tests done in Britain and France have now placed it firmly in the 12th or 13th […]

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After almost 500 years away from the town, Berwick Records Office will be home to a collection of 16th century documents as the £10,000 needed to finalise the purchase of the documents has been raised.

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Next month sees the beginning of events to mark the 400th anniversary of the signing of the royal charter giving Inner and Middle Temples a level of independence from church and crown control which they have ferociously guarded ever since. There were two conditions: the Inns must “serve for all time to come for the […]

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While exploring medieval treasures in the Louvre, [Mark Oxbrow] found a green gem-encrusted serving dish which he thinks could have been used at the Last Supper.
Amazingly the French national treasure dates back to the time of Christ, matching descriptions of the Grail.

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Inspired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition “Venice and the Islamic World, 828-1797”, this reporter recently traveled to the canal-laden city to seek out the art, in situ, which was influenced by the Islamic world. Armed with the exhibit’s 300-page catalog as our guidebook, my Italian-speaking photographer husband and I wandered the streets and […]

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