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A stained-glass window depicting Empress Matilda's voyage from England to Normandy Andreas F. Borchert via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 In three decades of teaching medieval European history, ...

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The Middle Ages were filled with battles, breakthroughs, and turning points that shaped the world we live in today. In this video, we count down 50 of the most crucial events that defined the medieval ...

More than a thousand years after a ship vanished off the coast of modern-day Croatia, archaeologists have uncovered a wreck ...

There has never been a singular Christian perspective on how religion, power and politics ought to relate to each other – not ...

These real medieval castles will transport you to a world filled with knights and princesses, legendary lore and inspiration for your daydreams Castles conjure up images of a romantic medieval past, ...