Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a period of massive social ... pestilence and the outbreak of civil conflict in England. By Ian Bremner. Richard II and the Crisis of Authority ...

He wasn’t a knight, but he could kill one from 200 yards away. The English longbowman dominated medieval battlefields and ...

Dr. Rory Naismith, professor of early medieval English history at University of Cambridge, won for his book “Making Money in ...

During the Middle Ages, Danes and Germans predominantly lived in towns ... Who was richer for most of the medieval period? In medieval England, people lived in greater prosperity than their ...

Wages in the Middle Ages What happens to a country’s economy when half its population dies within a few years? Dr Jordan Claridge is developing a new dataset in order to understand wages in medieval ...

Archaeologists recently discovered proof of a gladiatorial fight with a lion in an unexpected tourist destination: the city ...

The accession and coronation of Henry II took place on the same day. He was not only king of England, but also ruled over most of Wales, Normandy, Anjou, Gascony and other parts of France ...