Archive - Jan 15, 2009Lionheart shines at Metropolitan Museum of Art
Submitted by Milica on Thu, 2009-01-15 16:23
The early-music vocal sextet Lionheart recently offered a program of Christmas music of 13th through 16th-century Italy in the Medieval Sculpture Hall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Allan Kozinn of Medievalists.net has a review.
International banking - medieval-style
Submitted by Milica on Thu, 2009-01-15 12:38
A team of researchers from England's Reading University are studying the credit crunch -- not the recent one, but the "medieval credit crunch" from the time of England's King Edward I.
Some Vikings stung by fake swords
Submitted by Milica on Thu, 2009-01-15 09:09
"Buyer Beware" is an ages-old concept, one that was even true for Viking purchasers of "designer swords." Dr Alan Williams, an archaeometallurgist and consultant to the Wallace Collection, discusses the problems some Norseman encountered when commissioning new weapons.
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