Medieval England was not a good place to be a king, writes Evans--in an understatement--in this comprehensive study of the murders, battle deaths and accidental demises (and occasional death from ...
In his lifetime, the first king of England was renowned throughout Europe. But over the centuries, he has been sidelined by ...
LONDON, England (RNS) — She was one of the most wealthy financiers of her day, known to the kings of England and described as the most important Jewish woman of medieval England. She was also brutally ...
A new kind of kingdom needed a new kind of queen. The millennium-old and largely forgotten Mathilda of Flanders is being re-introduced as the groundbreaking ruler she was, thanks to Laura Gathagan, ...
Britain’s King Richard III was immortalized with the Shakespeare line, “A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse.” Now state-of-the-art technology has revealed what it may have sounded like if he did ...
King Charles and Pope Leo are to become the first British monarch and pontiff to pray together at a church service since the ...
The excavation site lies next to Holy Trinity Church in the English village of Cookham. Courtesy of the University of Reading Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a long-lost monastery where ...
A rare strip of parchment more than 10 feet (3 meters) long and adorned with Christian emblems shows chemical traces of its use by women in medieval England as a magical amulet to protect them during ...
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