What was life really like for the merchants, craftsmen and traders in London in the middle ages? Whilst the majority of ...

Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a period of massive social ... pestilence and the outbreak of civil conflict in England. By Ian Bremner. Richard II and the Crisis of Authority ...

Leprosy may have been spread to humans in the Middle Ages by squirrels, as per researchers. After examining bones from red squirrel and human remains from Winchester, southern England ...

Alcoholism during the Middle Ages in England, as elsewhere, resembled in many ways the alcoholism of classical antiquity, which Dr. Rolleston discussed in a previous paper before the Society (see ...

Wages in the Middle Ages What happens to a country’s economy when half its population dies within a few years? Dr Jordan Claridge is developing a new dataset in order to understand wages in medieval ...

Once upon a time, popular culture used to embrace charming or comic fantasies about the Middle Ages. From Camelot to ... away from these Merrie Olde England-type images to rougher stuff, as ...

In England, the York Minster brilliantly shows that the late Middle Ages were far from dark. ♪♪ This window's the size of a tennis court. The intricacy of the stone framing, or tracery ...