Illustrated Medieval scene from the Romance of Lancelot

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Medieval towns: everything you wanted to know

The Second Norman Conquest

The Carolingians: everything you wanted to know

1066: the battle for England

Tyrant, Usurper, Hero: Three Kings That Made England

Mansa Musa, king of Mali, depicted on a map of North Africa

5 things you (probably) didn’t know about medieval West Africa

Saint Augustine in His Study. (

Why is taking your own life considered a sin?How a Christian Saint defined suicide

Secrets of medieval churches

Isabella of Castile: life of the week

Medieval relic hunters: the quest for Notre-Dame's crown of thorns

Christine de Pizan, pictured speaking to a trio of inspirational women in an illustration in her Book of the City of Ladies, written around the turn of the 15th century (Photo by Album/Alamy Stock Photo)

Medieval influencers: 4 women who brought change to the Middle Ages

Robert the Bruce: life of the week

Leper Crusaders: how disease-stricken knights forged an army in the Holy Land

Kublai Khan: ruler of the waves

The princes in the Tower

Have we finally unmasked the killer of the Princes in the Tower?

A portrait of King John of England

9 of the worst monarchs in history

Henry V's brutal youth

Richard II and Henry IV of England. The cousins duked it out for control of England.

The tyrant and the usurper: Richard II v Henry IV

An 18th-century engraving of Edward, Earl of Warwick. Much of his short life was spent in the Tower of London before his execution for alleged treason (Photo by INTERFOTO/Alamy Stock Photo)

The other prince in the Tower: the tragedy of Edward of Warwick

Should we stop talking about the crusades?

Pigs in the medieval city

Video podcastMedieval make do and mend

Medieval make do and mend

Medieval science: everything you wanted to know

Medieval women: friendship, wanderlust and the medieval hustle

Tyrant, Usurper, Hero | 3. Henry V: hero

Tyrant, Usurper, Hero | 2. Henry IV: usurper

Video podcastDismemberment & disgrace: the grisly fate of Simon de Montfort

Medieval England's political miracle

The bloody rise of Henry V: how his brutal upbringing propelled him to greatness