Medieval Life and Death

Get the lowdown on everyday life in the medieval era with a week of talks from leading historians

Pigs in the medieval city.

Hand-coloured engraving of someone being tortured on the wheel.

Stretched, crushed and impaled10 shocking torture methods from medieval history

HistoryExtra Academy video lectureFaith and worship in late-medieval England.

The Decameron: sex, plague, and a medieval Love Island.

Joan of Arc: life of the week.

The Capetians: everything you wanted to know.

Plague, leprosy & murder: unlocking the secrets of medieval bones.

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

Eggs, bunnies and Jesus Christ: the history and origins of Easter

An architectural grotesque of a woman displaying her vulva

How naughty was the past? The hidden depths of the medieval church

Two lovers rest after a hunt, Codex Manesse

Saturday lecture: Medieval love and marriage.

Tournament between the Duke of Brittany and the Duke of Bourbon. (Photo by Christophel Fine Art/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

BlogMedieval(ish) matters #7: what it meant to be 'blue' in the Middle Ages (and more killer rabbits).

Saturday lecture: Medieval disease and medicine.

Saturday lecture: Medieval food.

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

How bloody was medieval life?

Saturday lecture: Medieval crime and violence.

Elma Brenner on medieval wellbeing: "People in the Middle Ages were absolutely focused on staying healthy"

A Pictish stone carving featuring a salmon

BlogMedieval(ish) matters #3: the salmon of knowledge, rolling Roman mosaics, eels, and Crusades.

Dissection of human cadaver by physicians

Ask the medieval doctor: 6 ailments and their treatments.

Medieval banquet

What time of the day did medieval people eat?

An illumination depicts medieval women embroidering

Medieval misconceptions: 12 myths about life in the Middle Ages – busted

Chris WoolgarMedieval food.

Elma BrennerMedieval disease and medicine.

Hannah SkodaViolence in the Middle Ages.

Sally Dixon-SmithMedieval love and marriage.

Image of a medieval skull showing arrow injury

BlogMedieval(ish) matters #2: arrows in the eye, The Last Kingdom, Viking dogs.

Old Norse: Page from the manuscript Codex Regius, which was written in Iceland and contains the poems of elder Edda. (Photo by Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

BlogMedieval matters #1: The Last Kingdom, Robin Hood and how to learn Old Norse in lockdown.

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

The Black Death and social change.

The effects of the disease known as the Black Death

Black Death quarantine: how did we try to contain the most deadly disease in history?

Medieval medicine.