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Learning to Read and Write: Women’s Education in the Middle Ages
By Lucie Laumonier Centered on female education in the European Middle Ages – in particular in the later Middle Ages…

Harald Hardrada: Against the Bulgarians
By James Turner In this article, we look at Harald Hardrada’s rewarding service within the Varangian Guard, the Byzantine-Bulgarian conflict,…

New exhibition brings together Staffordshire Hoard and Sutton Hoo objects
Two of England’s most important early medieval archaeological discoveries have been reunited for a new exhibition, Swords of Kingdoms: The…

New Medieval Books: From the Early Middle Ages to the Black Death
Five new books about the Middle Ages, dealing with topics such as clothing and poisoned wells. Viking Warrior versus Frankish…

Across the Strait of Gibraltar: Chroniclers from Iberia and North Africa
We are bridging communities across the sea in this episode of the Medieval Grad Podcast. Emma Snowden talks with Lucie…

“Be like the River-Crab” and Other Life Lessons from the Twelfth Century
By Elizabeth Smithrosser On a collection of short tips, pointers and ways of thinking about life by a former schoolteacher…

25 Things from Everyday Life in the Middle Ages
If you lived during the Middle Ages, what kind of things would you have? Here is a guide to some…

The Rise and Fall of the ‘Dark Ages’
By Peter Kauffner For five hundred years, the phrase ‘Dark Ages’ has allowed the living to signal their moral and…