HistoryExtra Academy late-medieval England course

Late-medieval England course: week four quiz. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

HistoryExtra Academy video lecture: crime, violence and the law. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Late-medieval England course: week three quiz. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

HistoryExtra Academy video lecture: political participation in late-medieval England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Court proceedings presided by the king ordering an arrest © Alamy

King's justice: raising a grievance in medieval England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Late-medieval England course: week two quiz. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

HistoryExtra Academy video lecture: family and community in late-medieval England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Late-medieval England courseWeek one quiz. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

HistoryExtra Academy video lectureFaith and worship in late-medieval England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Madonna of Humility, 1544. The nursing Virgin Mary is based on a Byzantine icon, but also on the direct observance of a mother with her baby. Everyday intimacy is coupled with Christian symbolism. (Image from TopFoto)

An act of love: breastfeeding in the medieval period. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Detail of a snowball fight in a medieval fresco (c1400) from a series of frescos depicting the Cycle of the Months in the Torre dell'Aquila (Eagle Tower) in Buonconsiglio Castle, Trento, Italy. (Image by Alamy)

The winter storms that rocked medieval Europe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Both adults and children were required to attend church – candle in hand – on the festival of Candlemas. (Image by Getty Images)

Medieval church calendarA guide to the holy days

A child cooks on an open fire in a medieval home (Photo by: Prisma/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Medieval childhood: a historical A-Z. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Colour illustration of people gathering outside a church during the Middle Ages

The medieval church: your guide to religion and worship in the Middle Ages

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Margery Kempe: medieval mystic. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A mother receives her newborn baby in a c1490 text written for Henry VII. Childbirth in the Middle Ages exposed both mother and child to great peril but, writes Elma Brenner, midwives had the expertise to intervene when complications arose. (Photo by Bridgeman)

The medieval childbirth guide: 6 tips for pregnant mothers in the Middle Ages

A painting of Henry IV, housed in the National Portrait Gallery, London. English earls, Scottish kings, French dukes and a Welsh prince all tried to unseat Henry, yet this most resilient of medieval monarchs prevailed over them all. (Photo by Getty Images)

Henry IV: the usurper king

Dr Jenna Dittmar, who has been studying medieval skeletons, reveals what her findings can tell us about injuries and violence in the era. (Image by Getty Images)

Fatal accidents and violent injuries in the Middle Ages. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 14th-century depiction of bakers at work. (Image by Getty Images)

Social mobility in the Middle Ages: could medieval people improve their station?

Medieval punishments, Toulouse, 14th century. (Photo by Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

How bloody was medieval life?

Clothes infected by the Black Death are burned in medieval Europe, c1340. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Black Death facts: your guide to "the worst catastrophe in recorded history"

Dance of Death, printed by Jacob Meydenbach, Germany 1492. (Photo by Alamy)

The Black Death and social change. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Robin Hood statue outside Nottingham Castle (Photo by Getty)

The many faces of Robin Hood. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Woodcut of a woman who may be stoking a furnace or baking bread, printed in the 15th century. (SSPL/Getty Images)

What was life like for a medieval housewife?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Calendars of the twelve months (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

Medieval immigrants: moving to England in the Middle Ages. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Richard II, led captive by Henry Bolingbroke (later Henry IV), renounces the throne in Jean Creton's 'Histoire du Roy d'Angleterre Richard II' (1401-05). (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Richard II: “I find myself a traitor”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.