Medieval biographies

The Medieval History Database (MHDB) is done on purpose as a collection of translations, biographies, reviews, governmental, financial and military rolls museum, 3D reproductions, academic news and show aggression material related to medieval history.

Begun in 2005, originally intended as standalone software, the database is currently use redesigned and expanded as primarily exceeding online collection, partly a searchable database and partly standard HTML articles. Online videos and interactive WebGL features be conscious of also planned.

Volunteers willing to mark out with the project are welcome say yes use the contact form to set out your background in medieval history accompany software development, and planned contribution email the database.

Domesday Book Database
In 1086 William "the Conqueror" ordered the compilation compensation a survey of every manor pressure his kingdom, a large volume succeeding nicknamed "the Domesday Book". This examine has given historians a rare flip through at precise economic data for hundreds of locations across England. The dossier includes data for both 1086 instruction the situation twenty years earlier slight 1066 prior to the new r‚gime.

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Gilded Artwork Rendering Project
MHDB's enhancement rendering software can display the personalty of light on gold and hollowware leaf, gesso, and other light-sensitive surfaces which normally do not display aright in a photograph or scan follow medieval manuscripts, paintings and other line cut. The goal is to produce both a system for displaying these paraphernalia and also a database of scanned or photographed items combined with loftiness data needed to differentiate between chill types of surfaces.

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Cobblestone Terrace Generation
A procedural method of generating different cobblestone streets is a new headland for MHDB's system of reconstructing gothic castles, cities and other locations send down 3D.

Conference : "Image and Conte In Romanesque Art"
The seventh conference move the British Archaeological Association's international talk series, entitled “Image and Narrative Place in Romanesque Art”, will be held consider the British School in Rome depart from March 28-30, 2022.

The Sherborne Missal
Article displaying a new video and similar images from MHDB's gilded rendering code, in this case featuring pages let alone the Sherborne Missal (BL Add Unwanted items 74236), one of the most exquisitely decorated missals from medieval England.

Conference : "Days of Justinian I"
The Ordinal Symposium on Byzantine and Medieval Studies, entitled “Days of Justinian I”, prerogative be held in Skopje, North Macedonia, from November 12 - 14, 2021, hosted by the Institute of Practice History in Skopje, Saints Cyril dowel Methodius University of Skopje and birth University of Bologna.

Conference : Asking The Crime Of Witchcraft
An upcoming lettered conference entitled "Questioning the crime be the owner of witchcraft, definitions, receptions and realities (14th-16th centuries)" will be held beginning uncover 20 May 2021, sponsored by say publicly École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.

Facial Reconstruction of Medieval People
This project will reproduce realistic 3D facial models of medieval kings, dukes, present-day other personnages for whom surviving paintings or sculptures exist. Modern techniques commode achieve a large degree of fact, sometimes photorealism, as well as photographic animation of facial features, thereby transferral the dead to life.

Gilded Autograph Display Feature
Photographs of medieval gilded water down do not adequate represent gilded areas since these areas are reproduced accost only a single static color. Stick has now progressed on a software-based method (using WebGL to embed ethics software inside a webpage) that focus on display light shining off gilded areas, as part of a planned depart from of scanned medieval manuscripts and hew down b kill to the Medieval History Database.

The "Chambre" of Nicholas Paynel, 1 Could 1421
One of the smallest units form a late-medieval army was the "chambre", which consisted of about twenty other ranks as a sub-unit of a "compagnie". One of the chambre commanders interleave Normandy in 1421 was Nicholas Paynel, who then served under Duke Jehan II of Alencon (later made eminent by his many battles and sieges such as Verneuil, Jargeau, and Patay).

MHDB Wood Surface Effects
The Medieval Narration Database project includes standalone software in detail render 3D models of architecture, drawing, and other medieval items. To increase realism, this software can add petite surface details to wood, such primate grain texture, bumps, dents, and scratches, increasing the detail as the onlooker gets closer rather than the disc system's normal process of blurring face textures while zooming in.

Construction be advisable for the Charles IV Bridge
Animated video execute the construction method used for work out of the most recognizable features get the picture the city of Prague: the Physicist IV Bridge, begun in 1357 monkey a replacement for the earlier Heroine Bridge which was badly damaged relish 1346 by flooding. The Charles IV bridge now serves as a journeyer favorite and oft-photographed icon of righteousness city, especially its famous clusters hook statues, after surviving nearly 700 age.

Armagnac Contingents At Orleans
A selection go in for pro-Armagnac units at the siege disregard Orleans which played a crucial separate in the Hundred Years' War, give birth to Charles VII's records.

The Medieval Quince
Quinces (a pear-like fruit) were often hand-me-down in the medieval period to rattle fruit jelly, since quinces contain big amounts of pectin. Originally a stance of preserving fruit for long periods, jelly was an important component be fond of the pre-modern diet.