Medieval

Eadwig died on October 1st, 959, still in his teens, in circumstances which remain unknown.

Richard Cavendish remembers the death of England's only pope, on September 1st, 1159.

Medieval scholars were the first to make the connection between maths and science and anticipated the discovery of inertia long before Newton. So why have their discoveries been forgotten, asks James Hannam.

Robert Hughes provides an Examiner's Commentary

Lucy Wooding introduces a highly significant, but often much misunderstood, cultural force.

On August 1st, 1259, the English renewed a truce which recognised Llywelyn ap Gruffydd as Prince of Wales.

In the 13th century a remarkable trading block was formed in northern Europe. Stephen Halliday explains how the Hanseatic League prospered for 300 years before the rise of the nation state led to its dissolution.

Henry II was fatally injured by the Count of Montgomery during a jousting tournament. He died on July 10th, 1559.

In 1381 England witnessed a ‘summer of blood’ as the lower orders flexed their muscle. Dan Jones tells the story of one of medieval England’s most dramatic yet curiously neglected events.

The past is more than a set of events with an inevitable outcome. Historians must strive to capture it in all its fascinating strangeness, argues Chris Wickham, as he ponders the problems of writing about the Middle Ages.