Attillium Arts Social

Our Book of the Month for December is Then She Endures Like the Tree: Marie de France’s The Ash Tree (Le Fresne) and Honeysuckle (Chevrefoil), translated by Katharine Margot Toohey.

A conversation with Leslie Brubaker on the first period of Byzantine iconoclasm (ca. 730 to 787 AD). What was the problem with religious icons? What did the "Isaurian" emperors Leon III and Konstantinos V try to do about it, and why? A great deal of what we used to know, largely by following pro-icon sources, […]

A series of secret drawings and writings possibly added by a mysterious female scribe have been uncovered in a manuscript over 1,200 years old.

New evidence, helping to form a 15th-century reconstruction of part of Westminster Abbey, demonstrates how a section of the building was once the focus for the royal family’s devotion to the cult of a disemboweled saint and likely contained gruesome images of his martyrdom.

In the mid-1990s, a little movie called Braveheart introduced a whole new generation to Scotland's fight for freedom in the Middle Ages. This week on The Medieval Podcast, Danièle speaks with Iain MacInnes about Scotland's Wars of Independence, why a sovereign kingdom had to fight for independence in the first place, and why the story […]

What happened to the Picts and why does is story of early medieval Scotland so difficult to tell? In this episode of Scotichronicast, Kate Buchanan is joined by Alex Woolf to talk studying Scottish history in the Early Middle Ages. 

February 11, 2023. Hosted by the Canton of Buckston-on-Eno in Burlington, NC.

February 17-19, 2023. Hosted by the Barony of Windmasters' Hill in Ellerbe, NC. Their Royal Majesties, Their Royal Highnesses, Their Royal Majesties, Their Royal Highnesses, Their Royal Majesties, Their Royal Majesties, Their Royal Highnesses, Their Royal Majesties, Their Royal Highnesses, Their Royal Majesties, Their Royal Majesties, and Their Royal Highnesses will be attending.

February 11, 2023. Hosted by the Barony of Marinus in Virginia Beach, VA.

February 11, 2023. Hosted by the Barony of Bright Hills in Manchester, MD. Their Royal Majesties, Their Royal Highnesses, Their Royal Majesties, Their Royal Highnesses, Their Royal Majesties, Their Royal Majesties, Their Royal Highnesses, Their Royal Majesties, Their Royal Highnesses, and Their Royal Majesties will be attending.

February 4-5, 2023. Hosted by the Kingdom of Atlantia. Their Royal Majesties, Their Royal Highnesses, Their Royal Majesties, Their Royal Highnesses, Their Royal Majesties, Their Royal Majesties, Their Royal Highnesses, and Their Royal Majesties will be attending.

February 10-12, 2023. Hosted by the Barony of Nottinghill Coill in Bennettsville, SC. Their Royal Majesties, Their Royal Highnesses, Their Royal Majesties, Their Royal Highnesses, Their Royal Majesties, Their Royal Majesties, Their Royal Highnesses, Their Royal Majesties, and Their Royal Highnesses will be attending.