The King Richard II’s Tomb
When Richard II’s first consort, Anne of Bohemia, died in June 1394, his grief knew no bounds. He decided that...
05/07/2013
MEDIEVAL HISTORY
Medieval Arms and Armoury
European warriors of the early Middle Ages used both indigenous forms of military equipment and arms and armor derived from...
13/06/2013
The Political Transformation of Medieval France
The first three decades of the 15th century were a time of civil war, military defeat, and political humiliation in...
02/06/2013
King Kenneth MacAlpin and the Alban kings
The centre of administration of the Pictish kingdom in the 9th century was Forteviot on the River Earn. Close by...
19/05/2013
Propaganda in the Wars of the Roses
In June 1864 Lewis Carroll was in London seeing to the publication of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. On June 22nd...
17/05/2013
The First Crusade: The shock of the new?
When in March of 1095 Pope Urban II made a speech to an assembly of French nobility and clergy at...
07/04/2013
How to cope with Viking attacks?
Historians and archeologists increasingly recognize the fact that many fortifications and fortified towns – known in Old English as burhs...
16/03/2013
Memorializing Edward the Confessor
An anonymous author in c. 1067 completed a Life of King Edward, commissioned by his widow Edith. The second part...
01/03/2013
Anne Boleyn’s marriage preparation
There had been persistent rumours throughout the summer of 1532 that Anne and Henry would marry during the interview at...
25/01/2013
The Story of Parzival
The Bavarian knight and poet Wolfram von Eschenbach (c.1170 – 1220), author of Parzival, was not the first great artist...
24/01/2013