Illustrated Medieval scene from the Romance of Lancelot

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A researcher examines the medieval Voynich Manuscript with a magnifying glass

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The Voynich Manuscript: who wrote the mystery medieval codex and what is it trying to tell us?

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The cosmopolitan Chaucer. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Equestrian portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer from the Ellesmere manuscript of his Canterbury Tales (14th century). "The world in which Chaucer moved was very outward-looking," says Marion Turner. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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Cosmopolitan Chaucer: the 14th-century poet’s inventive, international life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The ruins of Barnard Castle

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Barnard Castle: a journey through time

A scene from the Smithfield Decretals depicting a rabbit beheading a man. Rabbits seem to have a strange place in medieval imagery – and are depicted as having strangely violent tendencies. "It’s the sort of thing to give you nightmares," says David Musgrove. (Photo by Album/British Library/Alamy Stock Photo)

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BlogMedieval(ish) matters #5: chivalry, medieval killer rabbits and prisoners of war in the 15th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

King Edward II

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In profile: King Edward II

Medieval prisoners

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King John II made prisoner at the Battle of Poitiers by the English during the Hundred Years War, 1356. Illustration

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Medieval punishments, Toulouse, 14th century. (Photo by Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

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How bloody was medieval life?

King John hunting on horseback

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Was King John really that bad? Yes!

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The crusades: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Saturday lecture: Medieval crime and violence. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

This is the famous Rhynie Man carved stone, thought to be Pictish in date. (Photo by © Aberdeenshire Council Archaeology Service: www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/archaeology)

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BlogMedieval(ish) matters #4: back to Braveheart, Viking river boats, Picts, and the Crusades. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of King John ripping up Magna Carta

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Photo of Queen Elizabeth II and members of the Privy Council

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Your guide to...the Privy Council

A couple get amorous in this 14th-century illustration

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Call the medieval sex doctor: how 7 problems might have been treated in the Middle Ages. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Painting of an auto-da-fé

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Your guide to...the Spanish Inquisition

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Elma Brenner on medieval wellbeing: "People in the Middle Ages were absolutely focused on staying healthy"

Henry III during the Second Barons' War

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Simon de Montfort and the barons’ crusade: why rebel lords waged holy war against Henry III. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A Pictish stone carving featuring a salmon

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A French 15th-century covered market

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10 things you (probably) didn't know about the Middle Ages

Dissection of human cadaver by physicians

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Medieval banquet

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What time of the day did medieval people eat?

Picture of the Battle of Beziers

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In a nutshellThe Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade

A monk and his mistress

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An illumination depicts medieval women embroidering

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Medieval misconceptions: 12 myths about life in the Middle Ages – busted

Clothes infected by the Black Death are burned in medieval Europe, c1340. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Black Death facts: your guide to "the worst catastrophe in recorded history"

A medieval couple being married by a clergyman

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Love and marriage in medieval England

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