Medieval Europe, spanning the 5th to 15th centuries, was a time of castles, knights, and fortified towns. This era left ...

Little is more iconic than the image of a knight in ‘shining armor’. It might be a chainmail-clad warrior in a Pre-Raphaelite ...

For centuries, the Catholic Church straddled the world of medieval Europe. Every king, queen, knight, serf and soldier lived and died within the embrace of the Catholic faith. The church was not ...

This 1820 artwork shows 12th Century armoured knights jousting ... for the king and other medieval London elites were scouring horse trading markets across Europe seeking out the best quality ...