This documentary explores the thrilling and ceremonial world of medieval jousting tournaments. Once a brutal training ground for knights, these tournaments evolved into elaborate spectacles of ...

Discover how the Knights Templar rose from humble monks to become one of the most powerful military-religious orders of the Middle Ages. This documentary explores their battlefield dominance, ...

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ -The Middle Ages spanned 1,000 years, from about 500 to 1500. The first half was a time of relative poverty and economic stagnation. Then around the year 1000, Europe rebounded.

Although billed as “a fresh look at the Middle Ages through the eyes of children”, presenter Dr Stephen Baxter had to admit the bulk of historic evidence for how medieval children lived their lives ...

An illuminating one-volume compendium of primary documents on the art of medieval and Renaissance Europe This unique collection brings together notebooks, letters, treatises, and contracts dealing ...

T he European Middle Ages seem to be having a moment. Although it’s true that, essentially since the time they ended, the period has been used to justify the shape of an author’s contemporary ...

The Middle Ages, like all historical epochs – like our own – was a time of light and shadow. A time, in short, which, if we approach it without prejudice, still has many lessons to offer us.