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Medieval Life Spotlight: Cooking | Digital Demonstration
Now through Tue, December 8, 2020
7:00 P.M.
Online
What can make certain ingredients familiar across the globe and across time? This interactive program includes recipes to prepare together! The history of spices such as cloves begins in Malaysia, where colonization and trade brought this ingredient to medieval England. We will examine how the…
Virtual - Jerald Walker | How to Make a Slave and Other Essays
Wed, December 9, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
Register for the event here In conversation with author, essayist, and radio host Solomon Jones. Jerald Walker ’s recent How to Make a Slave and Other Essays was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award. A “restless, brilliant” collection that “can alight on a…
Medieval Life Spotlight: An Astrolabe How-To | Digital DIY for Families
Now through Mon, December 28, 2020
5:30 P.M.
Online
Tools are all around us, and we can use them to learn about and interact with the world around us. This is a live, hands-on online program. During Medieval times, Muslim astronomers used the handheld astrolabe as a version of an early smartphone to plot and predict everything from horoscopes, to…
Medieval Life Spotlight: Early Music | Digital Performance and Discussion
Now through Mon, January 25, 2021
5:30 P.M.
Online
Hear early songs for peace and protest, communication and communion. This is a live, interactive program. The Middle Ages spanned generations of musical experimentation and tradition, with transportable and practical instruments like the hunting horn transitioning to its more performance-based…