BISC Lecture - Digitizing Medieval Sussex

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Digitizing Medieval Sussex

Travel back in time with us! We’re bringing the Middle Ages to the Cyber Age. 

Join History Professor and friend of the Castle, Dr. Steven Bednarski (University of Waterloo) as he shares fascinating insights into his ambitious augmented reality reconstruction of the medieval Sussex village of Northeye.  

Abandoned around 1400 – a time of torrential storms, famine and plague – Northeye was once a busy settlement perched on a tidal island. You’ll hear how Steven and his research team have used a combination of archaeology, cartography, and cutting-edge computer science to transport users through time and space. The result is a truly immersive learning experience for students, history buffs, and would-be time travelers of all ages! 

Travel back in time with us for the second installment of the BISC Mini Lecture Series on Dec. 3: “Virtual History: 3D Models, Video Games, and Digitization in Late Medieval Sussex.” 


Steven Bednarski is an award-winning social historian of crime, gender, and natural environ-ment. He is Professor of history at St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo, where he also serves as Co-Director of Medieval Studies. In 2017, he won the international D2L Award for Teaching and Innovation and, in 2011, he received the University of Waterloo’s Distin-guished Teacher Award. Since 2013, he has directed Environments of Change, an international transdisciplinary research collaboration that unites dozens of scholars from across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities into a single research team. Their research, coordinated through the newly-constructed state-of-the-art Digital Research in Arts and Graphical Environ-mental Networks (DRAGEN) Lab, centres on finding ways to deploy emerging digital technolo-gies to understand better the relationship between natural environment, climate, and culture. His first book, Curia: A Social History of a Provençal Criminal Court in the Fourteenth Century, looks at the evolution of late medieval criminal courts in western Europe. His second book, A Poisoned Past: the Life and Times of Margarida de Portu, an Accused Poisoner, is a pedagogical microhistory. It queries how academics write history and proposes a new learner-centred mod-el for the study of the past and present.

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