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The Kyivan Rus’: Viking Outpost or Slavic State?
All states have their founding myths. France has the legendary King Charlemagne’s crowning as Em...
07 Apr
Medieval History
03 Mar
Who Were The Knights of Malta?
The Knights of Malta have a thousand faces. They were a peaceful hospital in Medieval Jerusalem, healin...
20 Feb
William Wallace: Braveheart or Brute?
Few figures in Scottish history loom as large as William Wallace. Apart from being an enormously consequential fi...
03 Jan
The Rise and Fall of the Abbasid Caliphate
Western, Anglocentric histories have too often lumped all of the vast complexity of the Middle East into the umbr...
20 Dec
When Did The Middle Ages Begin?
The question as to ‘when the Middle Ages began’ is a simple one on the surface. Everyone knows that the Middle Ag...
06 Dec
How Did The Islamic World Understand The Crusades?
Western accounts of the Crusades frequently see the Islamic Middle East as homogenous and barbaric, reproducing r...
30 Nov
The Legend of the Valkyrie: Were Viking Shield-Maidens Real?
Ever since the rediscovery of Norse mythology and society in the 19th century, the Vikings have been an ever-pres...
30 Nov
Industrial Pollution in the Middle Ages
We, quite rightly, imagine the Medieval era as a smelly, polluted and sickly time, when people had little underst...
08 Nov
From Volga to Vinland: The Viking Colonisation of the Known World
By Charles J. Lockett, Senior Content Contributor and Medieval Expert
25 Oct
Gregory and the Heptarchs: The Christianization of Anglo-Saxon England
From the start of the 7th century, the pagan kings of Anglo-Saxon England began a gradual, contested and frequent...
