Most people in medieval society lived in villages, there were few large towns. The majority of people were peasants, who worked on the land. There were a range of jobs and trades in towns and ...

Herstmonceux Castle, near Hastings in the south of England, is the setting ... This is then followed by a huge medieval battle, when more than 500 people from re-enactment groups around Europe ...

In medieval England, women in labor wrapped birth girdles around their abdomens to protect themselves and their unborn children. These parchment or paper rolls replicated the “girdle relics” of the ...

Rulers and Ruled in Late Medieval England: Essays Presented to Gerald Harriss Edited by Rowena E. Archer and Simon Walker (Hambledon xxviii + 270 pp.) The Politics of Fifteenth-Century England: John ...

This famed piece of Medieval embroidery depicts the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. William, Duke of Normandy, challenged Harold for the throne and was ultimately successful. The Bayeux ...

Jews rebuilt their community in the decades after a pogrom and before the expulsion of Jews from England ... people are estimated to have died in the pogrom. Basing their designs on surviving ...