Ovids Art and the Wife of Bath examines how Ovids Ars amatoria shaped the erotic discourses of the medieval West. The Ars amatoria circulated in medieval France and England as...
The medieval woman was both idealised and vilified. The idea that she might stray outside the boundaries established by her family and husband threw the medieval man into a veritable...
Martin Luther was so troubled by the sale of indulgences (pardons for sins granted by the Pope) that, in 1517, he nailed ninety-five theses to the doors of the church...
When it was granted by King John in 1215, Magna Carta was a practical solution to a political crisis. In the centuries since, it has become a potent symbol of...
After finally achieving what had eluded even his grandfather Genghis Khan – the conquest of China – and inheriting the world's largest navy, Khubilai Khan set his sights on Japan....
How did we learn to hate or despise? Simply, because we were taught to. In 638 the Christian Patriarch of the Holy city of Jerusalem called the Muslim Caliph's presence...
Bestselling author Alistair Moffat offers fresh insights into one of the most famous battles in history. As 8,000 Scottish solders, most of them spearmen, faced 18,000 English infantrymen, archers and...
On October 14, 1415, 5,000 British knights took on a French army five times their number. Despite these odds, the British emerged victorious with one hundred dead to the French's...
In 1215, the barons of England forced King John to sign a revolutionary document that would change the political landscape of Britain and beyond for the next 800 years. In...
His grandfather was the bloodthirsty Mongol leader Genghis Khan, his mother a Christian princess. Groomed from childhood for a position of authority, Khubilai snatched the position of Great Khan, becoming...
Huon Mallelieu retraces the footsteps of Harold Godwinson's English army in autumn 1066 as they raced from their crushing defeat of the invading Norwegian army at Stanford Bridge in Yorkshire...
