The Entertainment and New Media category brings the medieval era to the 21st century. It features articles about medieval themed movies, television shows, DVDs, CDs, video games and smartphone apps, just to name a few.
Spent the day with wenches and rogues at the Renaissance Festival. Tweets and pics to follow. # Entering the medieval world http://twitpic.com/28r3hy # Is this
Photographer E.F. Kitchen found herself drawn to the medieval re-enactors known as the Society for Creative Anachronism. Her pictures of them fill the book ‘Suburban
The Medieval Murderers are back! once again the collective of historical novelists – Bernard Knight and Karen Maitland among them – have produced a series
Ridley Scott’s take on the classic medieval hero will charge onto Blu-ray this September! In an early announcement to retailers, Universal has set ‘Robin Hood:
The Crusades were a major development on the medieval European scene, but their effect was, in the end, ephemeral. The forces of Christendom conquered Jerusalem
1389 – France and England agree to the Truce of Leulinghem starting a 13 year peace,the longest period of peace during the Hundred Years War
Archivist Note: There is a media blitz for the new mini-series The Pillars of the Earth. I hope it can live up to the hype.
Happy Birthday 1274 – Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland # R.I.P 937 – King Rudolph II of Burgundy # Had a massive iPhone meltdown.
Maybe Nicholas Carr is right: the internet is just so much catnip in a world already filled with too many distractions. And, like any such
There is some good news if you do not get the Starz channel. If you have DirecTV you will be able to view the first
The starz original series The Pillars of the Earth starts Friday 23 July 2010. It will air at 2200ET on the Starz movie channel in
*Archivist Note: I’m not entirely sure this is going to be a good movie. But I am intrigued by the trailer. You can’t really go
Happy Birthday 1321 – Joan of The Tower, Queen consort of Scotland, wife of King David II of Scotland # R.I.P. 1375 – Charles III
1149 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi http://twitpic.com/20zg7m # R.I.P. 1252 – King Abel
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