The Early Medieval Stirrup from Bribir

Nutrition and the Early-Medieval Diet

What's Wrong with Early Medieval Medicine?

The medical writings of early medieval western Europe c. 700 – c. 1000 have often been derided for their disorganised appearance, poor Latin, nebulous conceptual framework, admixtures of magic and folklore, and general lack of those positive features that historians attribute to ancient or later medieval medicine. This paper attempts to rescue the period from its negative image. It examines a n...

Slaves and Warriors in Early Medieval

The investigation of medieval slavery is still rooted in an approach first laid down by the likes of Adam Smith and John Millar over two hundred years ago. They conceptualised history as a series of stages through which societies moved, driven by the motor of increasing economic sophistication. In this conceptualisation, slavery was an economic institution and its decline in Britain during the ...

Tornadoes on the territory of the Czech Republic : From early medieval chronicles to the “ internet society ”

This paper addresses the historical documentation of tornadoes and the awareness of tornadic events in the area of the present Czech Republic throughout the last nine centuries. The oldest records of tornado occurrence in the region can be found in chronicles from the first half of the 12 century – the two most interesting of these are presented here in original Latin texts. Several other cases...

Cribra Orbitalia as an Indicator of Stress in the Early Medieval Slavic Population from Borovce (slovakia)

Several paleopathological indicators examined in skeletons are caused by stress during childhood and remain visible in adults. In this study, the prevalence and distribution of cribra orbitalia was observed in 451 individuals from the Early Medieval (8th – beginning of 12th c. AD) skeletal series at Borovce (Piešťany District, Slovakia). Three hundred forty-two skulls were scored for the presen...