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General Modern

Bloodied feet, outrageous breasts and the sinister power of a hair cut: a history of the body

The Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II reaches an accord with the Muslim sultan al-Kamil in 1229 that saw Jerusalem handed to the crusaders. This is just one instance of cooperation between east and west in the era (though the two men never actually met in person). (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)
Medieval

Muslim-Crusader interactions: a clash of civilisations?

Four knights hack Thomas Becket to death
Medieval

Europe’s greatest martyr: how Thomas Becket rose from the dead

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Excerpt from the Textus Roffensis showing Christ and a dragon
Medieval

The Textus Roffensis: a medieval manuscript to rival Magna Carta

Dean Irwin explains the story of the 1190 anti-Semitic massacre at Clifford’s Tower in York, and how it fits into the wider story of England’s medieval Jewish population. (Image by Getty Images)
Medieval

The Clifford’s Tower massacre & medieval anti-Semitism

Dr Hugh Willmott responds to listener questions on Henry VIII’s suppression of the monasteries in the 16th century. (Image by Getty Images)
Tudor

The Dissolution: everything you wanted to know

A c1520–40 portrait of Henry VI
Medieval

The miraculous afterlife of Henry VI

Forgery was the dirty little secret of the Middle Ages. Levi Roach explains who counterfeited medieval manuscripts and why. (Image by Getty Images)
Medieval

Medieval forgeries

Author Kate Mosse talks about her historical novel, The City of Tears. (Image by Getty Images)
Tudor

Novelist Kate Mosse on The City of Tears

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This image from the Nibelungenlied manuscript shows Pilgrim welcoming Kriemhild, a fictional character described as his neice in the text (Photo by Alamy)
Medieval

The forged texts of the Middle Ages: why Europe’s holy men turned to counterfeiting

The ruins of the once magnificent Roche Abbey
Tudor

The dissolution of the monasteries: mindless violence or planned precision?

A fanciful engraving imagines Peter the Hermit presenting Pope Urban II (centre) with a letter from Simeon II
Medieval

Launching the First Crusade

Henry IV of Germany asking for the forgiveness of Pope Gregory VII in Canossa in 1077. (Photo by De Agostini/Getty Images)
Medieval

Canossa: a medieval clash between church and state

Illustration of a mummy with mask
Ancient Egypt

How to make an Egyptian mummy in 6 steps

A composite image of Joseph Stalin (left) and Adolf Hitler
Second World War

Hitler and Stalin’s utopian dreams

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