Medieval

Phillipe Ariès once argued that childhood did not exist in the Middle Ages. The survival of toys and depictions of games in medieval manuscripts prove otherwise.

In our Film in Context series, Greg Walker explores the wider messages of Alexander Korda’s historical classic, in terms of the opposition to Appeasement and the mood of 1933.

Duncan Wilson looks at the history of the Strand site.

September 8th, 1051

Robert Curthose invaded England on July 21st, 1101.

Anthony Bryer considers the life and work of this great historian, who died in November 2000.

Geoffrey Woodward assesses how great an impact the Turks had on sixteenth-century Europe.

Andrew Robinson enjoys contradicting the image too many people have of the medieval period.

The most gifted, vivid and extraordinary of the medieval Holy Roman Emperors died on December 13th, 1250.

Eric Ives looks at the cases of two English monarchs who broke with convention by selecting spouses for reasons of the heart, rather than political convenience.