The Medieval period ... Average people were often caught in the crossfire. Their homes could be destroyed, their meager ...

For a medieval farmer, life began before dawn. The rooster’s crow was the only alarm clock. He rose to the chill of morning, ate coarse bread and weak ale, and walked to the lord’s fields. As part of ...

The story of two cults who set up shop in a small Donegal village at completely different times has resurfaced online and people can't get over it.

The show features more than 50 paintings, manuscripts, textiles and other artworks created in Western Europe between the 13th ...

Set alight by Reformation hopes and long-standing grievances, the German Peasants’ War looked like it might successfully ...

In contemporary literature, the Order of the Knights Templar was the focus of novels by Dan Brown (“The DaVinci Code”), Umberto Eco (“Foucault’s Pendulum”) and Ken Follett (“The Pillars of the Earth”) ...

A medieval London church tower has been suspended 45ft above the ground in what has been described as a “never-seen-before feat of engineering”. The tower of All Hallows Staining was balanced on ...

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The second phase of homes for a medieval Leicestershire village has been announced. Up to 27 homes look set to be built on the paddock site if approved by officials. Allison Homes hopes to build the ...