Some of you may enjoy listening to podcasts, especially when they are about medieval or military history. If so, we’ve got a great podcast to share with you called “Bow and Blade” and hosted by Professors Michael Livingston and Kelly DeVries, both renowned military historians. Started in 2021, and available on Apple Podcasts, it has a series of entertaining discussions about battles – famous and infamous – from the Hundred
As we Zoom into the year 2022, it’s terrific to know that many scholarly institutions are maintaining a program of talks that will be of great interest to Ricardians and medievalists alike. Here are two very intriguing talks that are available to on-line audiences, sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania’s Schoenberg Institute. They involve the study of pre-modern books and manuscripts. The first talk involves a genealogy called the Canterbury
He painted the most famous portrait of Sir Thomas More. Opening on February 11 and running through May 15, 2022 at the Morgan Library in New York City, this is the first major American exhibit covering the art of Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543). Titled “Holbein: Capturing Character”, it travels to the Morgan Library from the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Born in Augsburg, trained in Basel, and living a
Head’s up to American Ricardians with an interest in armor! The Toledo Museum of Art is currently hosting an extensive exhibit about armor: from its earliest use in the Ancient Greek period, through to the Medieval period, and beyond. This is currently on display, and is scheduled to close on February 27. For more information, check out their website. “Suits of armor, and the warriors who wore them, have fueled
