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Stars, Sieves & Stories
An interactive online exhibition developed by Dr Martha McGill and Dr Imogen Knox. It explores divination between about 1500 and 1750. You can try out various fortune-telling methods, and play through a ‘choose your own adventure’ style story exploring some possible life paths for a seventeenth-century woman.
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Medieval games
Witch Hunt 1649 was inspired by Virtus, a card game about medieval masculinity created by Prof. Frank Klaassen and students. Prof. Klaassen and collaborators have also produced other games about life in the Middle Ages.
Strange Sickness
Strange Sickness is an engrossing computer game devised by historians at the University of Aberdeen. Players take on the role of an Aberdonian scholar investigating outbreaks of plague in the city between 1498 and 1514.
Astrologaster
Astrologaster is a computer game that asks players to help the clients of the astrologer Simon Forman (1552-1611). It was developed in consulation with historians from the University of Cambridge’s Casebooks Project.
