The Venerable Bede (c.627/3– 735) depicts the moment in 710 CE when Nechtan III, king of Pictland (what is now northern and eastern Scotland) accepted Abbot Ceolfrith’s lengthy arguments in favour of ...

From the empire-wide messaging in his minting, to the private dialogue, both penned and subliminal through his iconography, Frederick Barbarossa stood as both one of the greatest Hellenophiles followi...

Elisabeth Crowfoot (1914-2005) was the author of Textiles and Clothing: c.1150-c.1450, a book compiling and analysing medieval textiles and clothing from archaeological digs in London.

Snow closed over the trail almost as soon as Pippin fled. The winter of late 831 was, as Louis’ biographer, known as the Astronomer, put it, ‘very harsh and inclement’, and the imperial army could not...

Finding his people 'misusing the law', Hywel Dda, King of all Wales, summoned the realm’s wisest men to an assembly.

Josh Coulthard is a doctoral candidate in History based in the Department of History, Geography and Social Sciences at Edge Hill University and is also the co-convenor of the North West Medieval Studi...