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Medieval Travel Literature at The Bibliothèque nationale de France: Marco Polo's "Travels" in Livre des merveilles du monde
29 January 2024 | T. Russo TMA ends the month on Marco Polo by sharing illuminated manuscripts at The Bibliothèque nationale de France....
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Jan 29, 20245 min read
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The 700th Anniversary of Marco Polo’s Death
Italy celebrates the Epic Journey of the Middle Ages and the Silk Route 12 January 2024 | T. Russo TMA Resources revised Jan 22 “Great...
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Jan 23, 20246 min read
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On Epiphany Sunday: Last Day to Celebrate 800 Years of the Presepio
7 January 2024 | TMA Christmas in the Middle Ages. Presepio dates back to the 13th century when Saint Francis of Assisi created the first...
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Jan 8, 20242 min read
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Daily Life: Meals and Celebrations
A historical study by Anastasia Sulipka 5 January 2024 - 12th Night | TMA Anastasia Sulipka contributes her essay on food in the...
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Jan 6, 20245 min read
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12 Days of Christmas in the Middle Ages
Celebrations after Advent: December 25 to January 6 | 25 December - First Day of Christmas | TMA Staff The calendar folio of Très Riches...
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Dec 25, 20232 min read
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Religions in the Middle Ages and Renaissance Periods
A literary study by Sam McDonald 22 March 2023; revised Dec 25, 2023 | TMA Sam McDonald contributes his essay on an examination of...
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Dec 25, 20236 min read
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Medieval Manuscripts
Living documents today around the world 10 February 2023 | T. Russo revised October 20, 2023 A medieval manuscript is a codex (pl....
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Oct 20, 20232 min read
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Cathedral of Our Lady of Bayeux, another Notre-Dame in France
With an embroidered treasure from the Middle Ages 05 January 2023 | TMA Staff The Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Bayeux in Normandy The Bayeux...
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Oct 20, 20234 min read
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Medieval Sword Fighting: Zaria Gorvett of BBC Discusses how Knights in the Middle Ages Faught
WHAT DO WE KNOW AND WHAT ARE OUR SOURCES? 23 December 2022 | TMA See Full Article by Gorvett - "The lost medieval sword fighting tricks...
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Jun 22, 20231 min read
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Giovanni Boccaccio’s One Hundred Tales
An ArcGIS Decameron StoryMap for High School Teachers 28 April 2022 | TMA Giovanni Boccaccio’s One Hundred Tales is an ArcGIS story map...
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Aug 22, 20222 min read
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Warriors and Knights in Sports and Competitions
MARCH 2022 ONLINE CONFERENCE O1 March 2022 | TMA Students continue their research on sports, considering actual sporting event that...
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Aug 22, 20222 min read
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Middle Ages for Educators Website
A Resource Created by Princeton University for High School and College Students 09 February 2022 | TMA Middle Ages for Educators (MAFE)...
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Aug 22, 20221 min read
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Medieval Collection at the National Museum of Scotland
Mary Queen of Scots’s silver casket and the inscribed Book of Hours by the Queen 06 January 2022 | T. Russo The National Museum of...
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Aug 22, 20223 min read
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Cultural Exchange – New RMA Publications focus on Old Norse Mythology and Old English Texts
Creative Responses of Medieval Literature with an Open Education Record for Teachers 03 October 2021 | T. Russo Barely Afloat by...
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Aug 22, 20223 min read
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StoryMap - the lands of the Mēxihcah
Teaching Indigenous communities 14 September 2021 | TMA ArcGIS Cover Image of Stolen by Maria Guadalupe Partida The Library of Congress...
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Aug 22, 20221 min read
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Service-Learning Project Teaching the Middle Ages with Novel Study receives the CEWIL Canada grant
Teaching Materials to highlight Language Arts and Ancient Civilizations 15 August 2021 | TMA In 2021, Reading the Middle Ages...
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Aug 22, 20222 min read
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MUSEUM SPOTLIGHT – ART FOR ANNO DANTESCO
Women of the Divine Comedy in the Ufizzi Gallery’s Special Exhibit 23 June 2021 | T. Russo Pia de’ Tolomei and Nello della Pietra by...
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Aug 22, 20225 min read
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Reading the Middle Ages: The Heroic & the Chivalric Annual Conference Explores Medieval Games
Students research Sports as the Canada Games come to Niagara - Sponsored by MARS and Department of English, Brock University March 18 and...
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Aug 22, 20222 min read
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The Dig premiers highlighting Sutton Hoo and the Great Burial Ship
The Anglo-Saxon Grave and Treasure 14 January 2021 | T. Russo Netflex's The Dig (2021) John Preston’s novel The Dig explores the story...
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Aug 22, 20223 min read
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Italy Commemorates Dante Alighieri, their Most Celebrated Poet from the Middle Ages
Anno Dantesco in 2021 08 December 2020 | TMA In 2021, Italy will commemorate the 700th anniversary of the passing of the nation’s poet,...
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Aug 22, 20222 min read
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