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The medieval Magazine
Editors: Sandra Alvarez and Danielle Trynoski
Website: www.medievalists.net
This digital magazine is published bi-monthly.
Cover Photo Credit: UP Mapungubwe Museum
Table of Contents
Regular Features
Building the Medieval
Art/ifact Spotlight
New! Londinium
Travel Tips
Talk the Talkt
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Letter from the Editors
Exhibits: Opus Anglicanum: Masterpieces of English Medieval Embroidery
Exhibit Review: Medieval English Embroidery on Display for the Last Time by Sandra Alvarez
Book Review: A Year in the Life of Medieval England by Toni Mount
High-tech imaging reveals secrets of the Codex Selden
'Curious Travellers' Seeking Vacation Photos to Record History by Andrew Wilson
Linlithgow Palace has record attendance at Spectacular Jousting Event
Art Gallery to feature Medieval Animal Trials in Dominic Watson's YEAST
Stanford scholar finds humor in medieval love songs
The Mary Rose artefact scans: A new way of analysing history
Byzantine stable "mucked out" in Israel
Meet the 800-year-old golden rhinoceros that challenged apartheid South Africa
Professor receives President's Medal for role in Portable Antiquities Network
Why should cultural artefacts be more rooted than people? by Robert Seddon
Book Excerpt: William the Conqueror: The Bastard of Normandy by Peter Rex