Would you love to launch your own Middle Ages band but can’t find a lutist let alone a good hurdy gurdy player? First off, congratulations on knowing what a hurdy gurdy is (man). But second and more ...
CAMBRIDGE, England, April 25 (UPI) --With the help of a trio of classical musicians, Cambridge researcher Sam Barrett has resurrected a series of songs from the Middle Ages -- a task thought ...
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Image credit: Border Fragment with Musical Angel, ca. 1140-1144. From the ambulatory and crypt of the church of the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis, Saint Benedict Window. New York, The Metropolitan Museum ...
On Friday evening (28 November), in St Catharine’s College Chapel, Cambridge Early Music (CEM) was proud to present Chilean-born Catalina Vicens, celebrated teacher and performer of medieval and ...
Being awake at 7 am on Sunday isn’t an ideal situation, regardless of whether you have yet to make your way to bed from the night before or whether you are, for some ungodly reason, an early riser. No ...
Today, the Middle Ages are a sort of paradox; the myth of the “Dark Ages,” which survives quite ably in popular culture, allows space for it to be whatever the popular imagination wants. When people ...
A long-standing myth about medieval history is that the Middle Ages were intellectually dark. Science supposedly took a hiatus between the demise of Rome and the rise of Copernican astronomy and ...