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The medieval period wasn’t always dark and full of terrors
Henry II wouldn’t be amused – but rehoming relics is a way of making peace with the past.
It looks as if the story of the red priestess Melisandre is only just getting started. But is she a prophet, or a witch?
What are the implications of the return of the Dothraki? Their real-life equivalent may have the answer.
It could all get rather violent.
Anglo-Saxon opposition to the Norman conquest lasted for years after the Battle of Hastings.
Our expert joins the dots between the ancient kingdoms of yore and today’s Northern Powerhouse.
How about some fowl play this Medieval Valentine’s day?
A windswept rock at what was the edge of the Medieval world is a fitting place for a Jedi hermit.
The requirement for marriage banns was introduced 800 years ago (almost to the day). Now there’s talk of scrapping them.
Most of the flavor combinations and traditions we’ve come to associate with the holiday date back to the Middle Ages.
The clocks going back hold the tantalising promise of an extra hour in bed. But the modern attitude towards that champion of indolence, the sloth, shows that sloth is still very much a deadly sin.
Does Greyscale’s allure for contemporary audiences have to do with disfigurement?
At the time of Magna Carta a food revolution was taking place, which would no doubt have been reflected in the barons’ celebrations.
The 13th century polymath Robert Grosseteste was ahead of his time when it came to understanding light, colour and the universe itself.
Six hundred years separate two post-election protests, but the issues at hand are strangely similar and the mistakes too easily repeated.
Game of Thrones never even approaches the slippery and surprising world of gender manipulation and redefinition that existed in medieval spirituality.
Benedict Cumberbatch is related to him – as are many others. But very few helped us identify the car park king.
By an accident of history, Richard III met his death on a battlefield near Leicester. Now, this has transformed the city.
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Professor in High Medieval History, Durham University
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Teaching Fellow in Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Aberdeen
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Lecturer in Medieval History, The University of Queensland
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Professor Emerita of Medieval History, University of Rhode Island
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Director of the Centre for History Heritage and Memory Studies; Associate Professor in History, Nottingham Trent University
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Emeritus Professor of Physics at Durham University, Durham University
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Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Department of Physics, University of York
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Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History, Queen Mary University of London
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Visiting Professor of Social Inequities and Injustice, Loughborough University
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Professor and Tutorial Fellow in English, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor of History, Auburn University
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Professor in the History of People, Place and Community, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, The University of Western Australia
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Lecturer in History, University of Leicester