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Overview: The Middle Ages, 1154 - 1485. Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a period of massive social change, burgeoning nationalism, international conflict, terrible...
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Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a...
- Paston Family Letters
Meet the family. Clement Paston. The great-granddaddy of...
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Alamy. For millennia, people slept in two shifts – once in the evening, and once in the morning. But why? And how did the habit disappear? It was around 23:00 on 13 April 1699, in a small village...
Key points. Most people in medieval society lived in villages, there were few large towns. The majority of people were peasants, who worked on the land. There were a range of jobs and trades in...
Mar 23, 2014 · A few hundred years ago, in many European countries, children were to send them away to live and work for someone else. Why?
Sword fighting was not a matter of random slashing or prodding – it was a sophisticated martial art to rival kung fu or sumo wrestling. But centuries later, crucial information needed to ...
Jun 17, 2011 · Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a period of massive social change, burgeoning nationalism, international conflict, terrible natural disaster, climate change, rebellion,...
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Read everything you need to know about the medieval period – aka the Middle Ages – the period in European history between the fall of the Roman Empire in the west (5th century) to the Renaissance period in around the 15th century.
