Medieval

Letters and Sanctity: the Canonization of the L...

The golden age of medieval epistolography During the 12th century the practice of writing letters experienced a renaissance leading to what is now considered the golden age of medieval epistolography....

The ‘Other’ Paradox: Scandinavian Interaction w...

Scandinavian Interaction with Slavs in the 10th – 13th centuries. To write about and discuss the connections between these two groups, it is firstly important to make clear what is...

Fantastic Beasts: The Monsters of the Medieval ...

No Bones About It It’s a story as old as time: a brave knight, clad in shining armour, on a quest to save the princess. Reaching the castle, he comes...

When Arab Met Rus: Decoding the 10th Century Ru...

‘They are the filthiest of all God’s creatures.' "They are the filthiest of all God’s creatures. They have no modesty when it comes to defecating or urinating and do not...

The Peasants’ Revolt: the beginning of the end ...

The combination of years of war, death and financial hardship, were made worse by the poll taxes of 1377 that saw regardless of wealth, a flat fee taken from the...

Nuns at War: Authority and Power in Sixth Centu...

In choosing Poitiers, the queen had placed her convent in the eye of the Merovingian storm Merovingian Gaul was a contentious place. The ever-shifting boundaries of the kingdom(s) carved out...