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We tend to think about the Middle Ages as a dark, backward and unchanging time characterised by violence, ignorance and superstition. By contrast we believe progress is the consequence of science a...
For centuries, the Crusades have been central to the story of the Medieval Near East, but these religious wars are only part of the region’s complex history. As ‘The Mongol Storm’...
Many of the animals we encounter in everyday life, from the creatures in our fields to those in our fantasies, have remained the same since medieval times – but the words we use, and the ways...
Medieval queens were seen as mere dynastic trophies, yet many of the Plantagenet queens of the high middle ages dramatically broke away from the restrictions imposed on their sex. Using personal le...
Here is an authoritative, richly illustrated history, and affectionate celebration, of Siena, one of the best-loved and most-visited cities in Italy. Occupying a hilltop site in the midst of a vast...
The lives and achievements of eight women writers – a startling and unconventional history of literature
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Six hundred years ago, Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani – an esteemed Islamic scholar and poet – survived the bubonic plague, which took the lives of three of his children, as well as millions of ...
Born a poor nomad in an unforgiving world, Chinggis (or Genghis) Khan transformed the 13th century, ultimately ruling an empire that would stretch from Korea to Crimea and Syria to Siberia. Much of...
BBC historian Janina Ramirez has uncovered countless influential women’s names struck out of historical records, with the word ‘FEMINA’ annotated beside them. Male gatekeepers of ...
BBC historian Janina Ramirez has uncovered countless influential women’s names struck out of historical records, with the word ‘FEMINA’ annotated beside them. Male gatekeepers of ...
The most famous and influential work of English fantasy ever published, reimagined for a new generation of readers by John Matthews, one of the world’s leading Arthurian experts, and ...
Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kublai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. On his return to the We...