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 ...

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 ...

medieval Europe was full of castles. They provided residencies for Lords and Ladies; Knights and all of their servants, pages and squires. So, regardless of your social status, it was perfectly ...

In medieval Europe, many churches had small cells attached to them. In these cells, a male or female recluse would live a life of permanent seclusion and strict religious adherence. Female recluses ...

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 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 ...

Polo was far from the first European to travel to medieval China ... a teenager and spent the most formative middle years of his life in Asia. It's there in Asia that he developed his way of ...

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 ...

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 ...

His World and Life: Religion and Society in Late Medieval Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016; Catalan and Spanish translations, 2019), which won the 2018 La corónica International Book Award “for the ...