Most Read This Week In Medieval History

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. The Middle Ages is the middle period of the three traditional divisions of Western history: classical antiquity, the medieval period, and the modern period. The medieval period is itself subdivided into the Early, High, and Late Middle Ages.

Medieval history is the history of this period in Western European history.

Most Read This Week Tagged "Medieval History"

Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King
Eleanor: A 200-Mile Walk in Search of England's Lost Queen
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of it
The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England, 400–1066
Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond
The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World
Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam
Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age
River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road
House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs
The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe
Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization
Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe – How Charlemagne's Dynasty Fell and Why It Matters for Understanding Political Collapse
The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England
Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women (Joan Palevsky Imprint in Classical Literature)
The Two Swords of Christ: Five Centuries of War between Islam and the Warrior Monks of Christendom
The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind
The Battle of Maldon together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son and 'The Tradition of Versification in Old English'
Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain
The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster
The Bone Chests
Weird Medieval Guys: How to Live, Laugh, Love (and Die) in Dark Times
The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization
Queens of the Age of Chivalry (England's Medieval Queens Book #3)
The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe
Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter
The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East
24 Hours in the Viking World (24 Hours in Ancient History, #5)
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability
Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War
The Princes in the Tower: How History's Greatest Cold Case Was Solved
How to Survive in Medieval England
Antwerp
Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium
A Marriage of Fortune
Going to Church in Medieval England
The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World
The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts
Queens of the Crusades (England's Medieval Queens, #2)
The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom
The Wife of Bath: A Biography
Gothic: An Illustrated History
The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada and the End of the Norsemen
Crécy: Battle of Five Kings
Empires of the Normans: Conquerors of Europe
How to Live Like a Monk: Medieval Wisdom for Modern Life
The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary
Beatrice's Last Smile: A New History of the Middle Ages
The Romans: A 2,000-Year History
Conquered: The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England
Medieval Women: Voices & Visions
Battle for the Island Kingdom: England's Destiny 1000–1066
Nemesis: Medieval England's Greatest Enemy
Magic in Merlin's Realm: A History of Occult Politics in Britain
The Middle Ages: A Graphic History
Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule
Two Houses, Two Kingdoms: A History of France and England, 1100–1300
The First Kingdom: Britain in the Age of Arthur
The Granddaughters of Edward III
The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe
The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages
Triumph and Illusion: The Hundred Years War, Volume 5
Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine: Founding an Empire
Lionessheart: The Life and Times of Joanna Plantagenet
The Normans: Power, Conquest and Culture in 11th Century Europe
Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State
Now What?!!
Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings
The Dreadful History and Judgement of God on Thomas Müntzer: The Life and Times of an Early German Revolutionary
The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club
How to Slay a Dragon: A Fantasy Hero's Guide to the Real Middle Ages
The Crusader Armies, 1099–1187
The Viking Great Army and the Making of England
Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers

Ian Mortimer
Collectively they remind us that history is much more than an education process. Understanding the past is a matter of experience as well as knowledge, a striving to make spiritual, emotional, poetic, dramatic, and inspirational connections with our forebears.
Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

Sharon Kay Penman
Richard knew, of course, that his was thought to be an unlucky title; only twice before had a Richard ruled England, and both met violent ends.
Sharon Kay Penman, The Sunne in Splendour

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