The Last Supper

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Salem: Investigating the Witch Trials HistoryExtra podcast series title card

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Salem witch trialsEpisode 2: How events spiralled out of control. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Salem witch trialsEpisode 1: introduction. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tourists at Stonehenge. We have no better idea today than 200 years ago what the people who erected these sarsens truly believed. (Getty Images)

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Prehistoric religion: a pagan riddle we will never solve?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Dr Benjamin Pohl explores the role of monks and abbots in the Middle Ages, and asks: why did they write histories?

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Why did medieval monks write histories?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A stone bust of the Greek god Dionysius

Ancient Greece

The gods and their whims: your guide to ancient Greek religion

Neil Faulkner reveals how the Anglo-Arab Wars of 1870-1920 helped give rise to the first modern jihad

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Jihad and the British empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An Anglo-Saxon cross from the church of St Michael

Anglo-Saxon

Anglo-Saxon conversion: the coming of the cross (at the point of a sword)

A bust of Ashoka the Great

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History heroNihal Arthanayake chooses Ashoka the Great (c304–c232 BC). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of German Dominican preacher Johann Tetzel selling indulgences inside a church

Medieval

Q&AWhat are indulgences, how were they abused in medieval times, and what do they have to do with the Reformation?

An architectural grotesque of a woman displaying her vulva

Medieval

How naughty was the past? The hidden depths of the medieval church

Portrait Of Edward Seymour (Colorized)

Tudor

Edward Seymour: the fall of the dithering dictator

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Q&A: What was the punishment of being ‘burnt in the hand’?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Everything you wanted to know about the church in medieval England – Nicholas Orme podcast

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The church in medieval England: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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African Europeans. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Bretons, Britons, Celts & King Arthur. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Medieval Ethiopia’s diplomatic missions. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 12th-century Celtic round tower at Clonmacnoise, County Offaly

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“The power of the Irish over the Britons is great”: Fergal Keane on Britain's Irish roots. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Bloodied feet, outrageous breasts and the sinister power of a hair cut: a history of the body. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Muslim-Crusader interactions: a clash of civilisations?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Four knights hack Thomas Becket to death

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Europe's greatest martyr: how Thomas Becket rose from the dead. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Excerpt from the Textus Roffensis showing Christ and a dragon

Medieval

The Textus Roffensis: a medieval manuscript to rival Magna Carta

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The Clifford’s Tower massacre & medieval anti-Semitism. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

A c1520–40 portrait of Henry VI

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The miraculous afterlife of Henry VI. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Medieval forgeries. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Novelist Kate Mosse on The City of Tears. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

This image from the Nibelungenlied manuscript shows Pilgrim welcoming Kriemhild, a fictional character described as his neice in the text (Photo by Alamy)

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The forged texts of the Middle Ages: why Europe's holy men turned to counterfeiting. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The ruins of the once magnificent Roche Abbey

Tudor

The dissolution of the monasteries: mindless violence or planned precision?

A fanciful engraving imagines Peter the Hermit presenting Pope Urban II (centre) with a letter from Simeon II

Medieval

Launching the First Crusade

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Canossa: a medieval clash between church and state. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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