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Black Wolf re-enactment group

Black Wolf is a living history/re-enactment group based in the Queensland town of Allora. They are focus on the Crusades and Crusader experiences in the Middle East during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Their leader is ‘Duke Robert…

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The Crimson Cog

The Crimson Cog are a historical re-enactment group in New South Wales. They focus on the Hanseatic League in the years 1250-1300, particularly the city of Lübeck in northern Germany. The Hanseatic League were a confederation of merchant guilds…

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â€˜The Marriage of the Arnolfini â€“ After Jan van Eyckâ€™ by Fiona Hall

This photographic artwork by Australian artist Fiona Hall was purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1984. In the photograph Hall has reconstructed her own version of the scene from medieval Dutch painter Jan van Eyckâ€™s famous 1434…

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Birka Traders

Birka Traders was the online store created by Peter Beatson to sell his medieval metalwork. The collection included mainly jewellery and personal items such as belt buckles and strap ends, and focussed on the early medieval period, particularly the…

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The Walled City of Nuremburg â€“ The Cradle of Nazism.

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In this article, John T. McMahon describes a visit to the city of Nuremburg in 1936. Arriving only days after one of the Naziâ€™s infamous Nuremburg rallies, he notes the swastikaâ€™s still lining the streets and parade ground. For most of…

Rothenburg

In this article, John T. McMahon discusses a visit to Rothenburg in 1936, which he describes as â€œthe finest surviving example of a medieval city with its walls, gates and towersâ€. After giving a brief history of Rothenburgâ€™s…

SIMS Medieval

In SIMS Medieval, the latest instalment of the virtual reality SIMS computer game series, players control a number of different heroes and characters ranging from kings and queens to knights, merchants, priests and blacksmiths. They send these…

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