Tuesday:

Video:
“The Battle of Towton [1461]” [50 min.; watch 1:00-5:00; 7:00-11:24;20:00- 26:30(military surgery); 31:00-37:00 (weapons and injuries); 43:22-45:00 (wound sequencing)]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvvhtIx2DRc

Readings:

Paterson, “Military Surgery”

Mark Brennand, review of Blood Red Roses: The
Archaeology of a Mass Grave from the Battle of Towton AD 1461
https://web.archive.org/web/20090818193403/http://www.assemblage.group.shef.ac.uk/issue6/Roses_web.html

Battle injuries: skeletons from the Battle of Towton, 1461
http://www.the-exiles.org/Article%20Towton.htm

The Towton Mass Grave Project
https://web.archive.org/web/20110927065749/http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/archsci/depart/resgrp/towton/

Brief account of the Battle of Towton (March 29, 1461):
https://web.archive.org/web/20080117131809/http://www.wars-of-the-roses.com/content/battles/towton.htm

Images:

Interactive map of the battlefield at Towton (N. Yorkshire):
https://web.archive.org/web/20110806075927/http://www.r3.org/archives/ricardian_britain/towton/caption/towtonmap.html

Photographs of Towton battlefield and surrounding area:
http://www.r3.org/richard-iii/ricardian-travel/yorkshire-north-eastern/towton/

Rolled up mail shirt found near the site of the battle of Kungslena, Sweden (1208)

Battle scenes from the Maciejowski Bible (Paris, c. 1234-44):
http://www.medievaltymes.com/courtyard/images/maciejowski/leaf10/otm10va&b.gif

http://home-4.worldonline.nl/~t401243/mac/mac11rA.jpg
http://www.medievaltymes.com/courtyard/images/maciejowski/leaf23/otm23va&b.gif

Skeletons from the battle of Visby on the island of Gotland, Sweden (July 1361):
Brief website on battle and skeletons
Skulls: with mail coif,  with projectiles, with coif and smashed face
Coat of plates from one of the graves

The battle of Towton, Palm Sunday (March 29th), 1461:
Detail of mass burial
Sketch of mass burials

Soldier with poleaxe (detail of stained glass window):
https://web.archive.org/web/20070706095901/http://www.wars-of-the-roses.com/images/images2/wars_of_the_roses.jpg

Medicine and surgery:

The four humors

Urine wheel, 14th cent. (parchment quick-reference text, meant to fold up and hang at the physician’s belt)

Uroscopy: physician examining a urine flask and physician or apothecary examining a customer’s urine flask (both 14th cent.),
parodied as monkey examining urine flask (Cambrai, BM, 87), and similar (Bodleian, MS 264)

Drawing teeth, early 14th cent.

Writings of John of Arderne, 1370s (in later manuscripts)

Medieval arrowheads (Museum of London)

“Wound man” (German, late 15th cent.,Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Cgm 597 )

Public dissection, 15th cent.

Herbal, c. 1480-1500 

Anatomical sculpture, ivory, c. 1500 (6-7 inches high)

Details from other late medieval castles and palaces:

Penshurst Place, Kent (1341 and later): aerial view, hall interior, dais end of hall
Caerphilly Castle, Glamorgan (begun 1268; hall remodeled 1320s): exterior of hall (on right); interior
Great Hall at Penshurst Place, Kent (late 14th cent.)
Great Hall, Durham Castle, 14th cent.
Well-house with donkey treadmill, Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight
14th-century Great Hall;  Buffet in 14th-century Great Hall  at Dirleton Castle, East Lothian, Scotland
Kitchen, Windsor Castle, Berkshire (late 15th cent.; painted in 1818); aerial photo of fire damage at Windsor Castle in 1992; painting (1999) of restored kitchen after fire
Cotehele House (aerial photo), late 15th cent.

Oxford Colleges: aerial photograph
Great Hall, Christ Church College (early 16th cent.)