Set in 1350, this medieval drama unfolds through a number of village characters telling their stories of life in the middle ages. We meet the baker, the herbalist, the landless labourer, the medicus ...

Medieval Europe’s diverse regional cultures were balanced by a conscious attempt to create a unified view of the world that embraced religious and social ideals, Latin and vernacular literature, and ...

Most people in medieval society lived in villages, there were few large towns. The majority of people were peasants, who worked on the land. There were a range of jobs and trades in towns and ...

Life in Medieval Europe wasn't quite what you might expect. Warfare at the time, while quite different from modern warfare, was also very different from the way it's often depicted in fictional media.

The volume features original new work on Old Norse poetry and saga, other languages and literatures of medieval north-western Europe, and the afterlife of Old Norse in modern English ... Maríu saga, ...

The church was not simply a religion and an institution; it was a category of thinking and a way of life. In medieval Europe, the church and the state were closely linked. It was the duty of every ...

She argues in her monumental new book Islamesque (2024) that in early medieval Europe the world of construction and decorative crafts was “dominated by Muslims”. The claim might sound absurd ...

The first complete look at the social status and daily life of medieval Jewish women. This volume, an amazing act of historical recovery and reconstruction, offers a comprehensive examination of ...

Continental Europe is home to four microstates with populations ... These states have existed since the medieval period and their tiny size has enabled them to develop and maintain singular ...

Europe's biggest free Medieval festival returns this weekend to celebrate its 40th anniversary. Each day, around 10,000 people attend the two-day Tewkesbury Medieval Festival, which takes place on ...