Au Moyen Âge, les moines cherchaient à concilier austérité et besoins matériels ; les chauffoirs témoignent d’une certaine attention portée à leur bien-être malgré la rigueur de leur vie.
- Professor in High Medieval History, Durham University
Warm rooms were often very unusual in medieval times.
Medieval scholars connected celestial events to changes that happened on the ground, such as the overthrow of the king.
Many people gathered and slept in a shared warm space in medieval times.
Many Easter treats hark back to medieval times.
A 12th century sighting of ball lightning has been discovered in a medieval monk’s chronicle.
Eating codlings and electing bean kings were all part of the medieval Christmas and New Year festivities.
An unlikely combination of artists, medieval historians, philosophers and scientists have converged to create an exhibition of glass artworks.
The case for neoclassicism in science.
Robert Grossetête (1170 à 1253) fut l’évêque de la ville de Lincoln, poète et politicien. De nouveaux documents révèlent qu’il fut aussi l’un des premiers à aborder certains phénomènes naturels.
It could all get rather violent.
The 13th century polymath Robert Grosseteste was ahead of his time when it came to understanding light, colour and the universe itself.
Think of medieval food and a whole range of not especially dignified images come to mind; Monty Python’s Holy Grail has a lot to answer for. Mud was far from being a constituent part of the diet of the…
A 13th century bishop’s theory about the formation of the universe has intriguing parallels with the theory of multiple universes. This was uncovered by the the Ordered Universe project at Durham University…
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