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2 months agoAmericans may love football, but did you know its origins are in medieval England?
But does it surprise you that the origins of both the word and the framework for the modern game stem from medieval England? Today, the word 'football' is used to refer to different games: American football, the game played at the Super Bowl, where a foot is rarely used to direct the ball. And elsewhere in the world, football refers to what Americans call "soccer."
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1 month agoLegacy of the Geats: How the Memory of Beowulf's Tribe Survives in Modern Sweden - Medievalists.net
The Geats' identity as a distinct people likely survived Swedish expansion and remains conceptually present in modern Sweden, despite Beowulf's poem suggesting their ultimate defeat and absorption.
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2 months agoCnut: The North Sea King
"Cnut: The North Sea King" by Ryan Lavelle is a short and engaging biography of the most ambitious and successful Scandinavian leader of the Viking Age. Lavelle captures both the brutality and pragmatism that allowed Cnut to govern England effectively for almost two decades, despite being an outsider and a foreign conqueror. In 1066 and All That (1930), a parody book of English history,
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2 months agoOnline Course: The Normans in Europe - Medievalists.net
We get started by exploring the origins of the Normans in the county and then duchy of Normandy. We will understand their Norse background and their relationship with the Carolingians. The timeline approach will help us discover all the counts and dukes of Normandy, and what they contributed to their realm. This will set the foundation for the interconnected stories that will lead us to England and the Mediterranean.
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