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In a Unicorn's Garden Book Review: Recreating the Mystery and Magic of Medieval Gardens

By: Feature Writer Rachel Bellerby

Farming in Medieval Times: Working on the Land in the Middle Ages

By: Feature Writer Rachel Bellerby

Book Review Author Robert Bartlett: The Natural and the Supernatural in the Middle Ages

By: Feature Writer Rachel Bellerby

The Cathar & Albigensian Crusade: The Death of the Langue d'Oc

By: Anastacia Prisbrey

May Day in Medieval Times: Bringing in the May in the Middle Ages

By: Feature Writer Rachel Bellerby

The Condemnation of 1277: The Contradictory Nature of Bishop Tempier's 219 Condemnations

By: Simon August Thalmann

The Siege in Medieval Times: Besieging a Castle in the Middle Ages

By: Feature Writer Rachel Bellerby

The Knight and Medieval Jousting: Tournaments and Lancing in the Middle Ages

By: Feature Writer Rachel Bellerby

King Arthur of Britain or Scots? Who was the leader behind the Arthurian legend?

By: Anastacia Prisbrey

A Character Slice of the Druids: "The Truth Against the World" A Song of Freedom

By: Anastacia Prisbrey

Naming The Blade: The Origin of Christening a Sword

By: Anastacia Prisbrey

Eustace the Monk: The Dramatic Life of a Medieval French Adventurer

By: Feature Writer Isaac M. McPhee

The Cursed House of Astolot: Was the death of the "Lady of Shalott" just the beginning?

By: Anastacia Prisbrey

Pelagius, The Welsh Monk: An Understanding of the Pelagian Heresy

By: Anastacia Prisbrey

Medieval Easter Celebrations: An Important Feast on the Church Calendar in the Middle Ages

By: Feature Writer Rachel Bellerby

The Medieval Pilgrimage: Religious Pilgrim Destinations in the Middle Ages

By: Feature Writer Rachel Bellerby

The Medieval Garden: Garden History, Use of Plants and Herbs in the Middle Ages

By: Feature Writer Rachel Bellerby

Reiver Families and Cursing Stone: Does this Medieval Curse mean Trouble for Carlisle?

By: Frances Spiegel

Friday the 13th: The Death of the Templars

By: Anastacia Prisbrey

Medieval Royalty In Wales: A Life of Priviledge, or Something More Menacing?

By: Anastacia Prisbrey

The Trobairitzes: Medieval Women Troubadours

By: Catherine Owen

Robert The Bruce: Before Bannockburn

By: Anastacia Prisbrey

Christina of Markyate: The Battle of Hastings Changed Anglo-Saxon Life for Ever.

By: Frances Spiegel

The Medieval Woman: William the Conqueror's Affect on Women During the Norman Era

By: Frances Spiegel

The Fifteenth Century Fulcrum: How Portugal Replaced China as a Great Power

By: Gregory Arthur Anderson

Augustinian Medieval Medicine: Medieval life - The use of Opium Black Henbane and Hemlock

By: Neil Gunn

York Minster: Conservation of World’s Largest Medieval Stained Glass Windows

By: Frances Spiegel

Harrow-on-the-Hill at Domesday: Archbishop Lanfranc and medieval Hergae

By: Frances Spiegel

Saint Mary’s Church: Harrow-on-the-Hill’s Medieval history

By: Frances Spiegel

History of The Black Death: Bubonic Plague Ravaged 14th Century Europe

By: Scott Hayden

Book Review: Medieval Lives: By Terry Jones and Alan Ereira

By: Frances Spiegel

Film Review: Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade

By: Paula Stiles

Africa in the Middle Ages: From the Great Zimbabwe to Zanzibar

By: Paula Stiles

A Templar Christmas: Christmas Day with the Monks

By: Paula Stiles

Medieval Origins of Christmas: The History of Some Christmas Traditions from the Middle Ages

By: Paula Stiles

Medieval Christmas Carols pt. 1: Origins

By: Paula Stiles

Medieval Christmas Carols pt. 2: The Carols

By: Paula Stiles

This Week in Medieval History III: 12/9/06

By: Paula Stiles

Saints: Holy People of the Middle Ages

By: Paula Stiles

Christmas in the Middle Ages: The Merry Medieval Month of December

By: Paula Stiles

This Week in Medieval History II: 11/17/06: Articles

By: Paula Stiles

Film Review: Becket: Medieval Church (Thomas Becket) Versus Medieval State (Henry II of England)

By: Paula Stiles

All Saints Day/All Souls Day: Autumn Church Feasts

By: Paula Stiles

This Week in Medieval History: Articles

By: Paula Stiles

Film Review: Fantasia: A Night on Bald Mountain

By: Paula Stiles

Medieval Witches: From Pagan Practice to Witchhunts

By: Paula Stiles

Film Review: Witchfinder General: The career of a postmedieval witchhunter

By: Paula Stiles

Witches: Supernatural, Unexplained, and Witchcraft in History

By: Paula Stiles

The Trial of the Templars: Legends of Revenge and Divine Justice

By: Paula Stiles

Film Review: Macbeth: Scottish King or Tyrant?

By: Paula Stiles

Manuel II Paleologus pt 2: Muslim Ally or Muslim Enemy?

By: Paula Stiles

Film Review: Commercials pt. 2: From Kia to Capital One

By: Paula Stiles

Manuel II Paleologus pt I: Benedict XVI's Byzantine Stalking Horse

By: Paula Stiles

Film Review: A Knight's Tale: Heath Ledger, Paul Bettany and Rufus Sewell Get Medieval

By: Paula Stiles

Sibylla of Jerusalem: Flakey Crusades Era Heiress or Queen of Jerusalem?

By: Paula Stiles

Film Review: Martin Guerre: What Le Retour de Martin Guerre Tells Us About Medieval Life

By: Paula Stiles

Matilda of England: Empress, Countess and Queen

By: Paula Stiles

Film Review: El Cid: Anglophone Hollywood's Take on Medieval Spain

By: Paula Stiles

Urraca of Castile and Léon: Twelfth century Ruling Queens, part two: Defiant Spanish Wife, Unconquered Iberian Queen

By: Paula Stiles

Film Review: The Lion in Winter: Katherine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole Go Head to Head

By: Paula Stiles

Eleanor of Aquitaine: Twelfth century Ruling Queens, part one

By: Paula Stiles

Film Review: The Black Knight: Arthur, Medieval Legends and bad British B-Movies

By: Paula Stiles

St. Cyril of Alexandria: A Bully for Early Christianity

By: Paula Stiles

Film Review: The 13th Warrior: The Risala meets Beowulf meets The Flintstones

By: Paula Stiles

Mystery of the 1054 Supernova: Theories and Assumptions about Medieval Astronomy

By: Paula Stiles

Film Review: Monty Python: Monty Python and the Holy Grail

By: Paula Stiles

Medieval History Q&A: Questions answered here about the Middle Ages--Historical, Fictional and Fanciful

By: Paula Stiles

Petrarch and the Dark Ages: The Creation of the Middle Ages

By: Paula Stiles

Film Review: Bram Stoker's Dracula: A Medieval Vampire's Tale

By: Paula Stiles

Vlad Dracul the Impaler: Outlaw and Patriot

By: Paula Stiles

Film Review: Henry V: How Kenneth Branagh Took on Lawrence Olivier and Came out on Top

By: Paula Stiles

Owain Glyndwr: Outlaw Prince of Wales

By: Paula Stiles

Film Review: Saladin: A Just Muslim Ruler or an Honorable Infidel?

By: Paula Stiles

Medieval Piracy and Privateering: Piracy from Pompeii to the Knights of Malta

By: Paula Stiles

Film Review: Braveheart: How Mel Gibson Won the Battle of Scottish Independence and Lost the War of Historical Accuracy

By: Paula Stiles

Medieval Outlaw Heroes of Scotland: William Wallace and Robert the Bruce

By: Paula Stiles

Film Review: Ivanhoe: A Medieval Outlaw Fantasy

By: Paula Stiles

Byzantium, the Lost Empire: How Constantinople Preserved the Roman Empire in Anatolia until 1453

By: Paula Stiles

Film Review: The Vikings: How Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh saved early medieval Northumbria

By: Paula Stiles

Medieval Spain: Reconquista: From the Taifa Kingdoms to Isabella and Ferdinand versus Granada (1000-1492)

By: Paula Stiles

Film Review: Crimson Rivers II: Carolingians, Nazis, the Maginot Line and Jean Reno

By: Paula Stiles

Medieval Spain: Al-Andalus: From the Visigoths to Al-Mansur (711-1000)

By: Paula Stiles

Columbus and the Vikings: The Discovery and Exploration of Greenland

By: Paula Stiles

The Black Death (1347-1351): Apocalypse or Eurasian Pandemic?

By: Paula Stiles

The Knights Templar: Templar History from Bernard of Clairvaux to Dan Brown

By: Paula Stiles

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