Medieval News

Poland's Marcin Waszkielis and Suzanne Elleraas of the United States took first prize in the male and female divisions of the Medieval...

Michael Vlahos offers a fascinating article in The Atlantic about how "hundreds of thousands of lives" in World War I could ha...

It is the most famous battle in British history, fought, as every schoolboy knows, in 1066 at a site now marked by Battle Abbey, near the ...

The Flodden 500 Project will receive £887,300 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to commemorate the 500th anniversary of one of the largest bat...

A rare medieval sword, which had been given to the Mamluk rulers of Egypt and then looted from them by the same Crusader king, sold for £16...

The archers who fought on Henry VIII’s warship the Mary Rose, which sank in 1545, would have been elite soldiers for their time, standing o...

I grew up on an early edition of Dungeons & Dragons and John Boorman’s Excalibur. The image of the tin-can knight — clanking and rattl...

It’s Sunday, and let us hope that you are about to have lunch. As you prepare to enjoy the roast beef, it may, possibly, occur to you that...

A re-enactment of the Battle of Hastings on what is believed to be the original battlefield has been cancelled because of torrential rain....

Archaeologists believe they have discovered a site where soldiers were buried after the Battle of Naseby was fought in Northamptonshire.  ...

Until the second world war, most British medieval historians avoided cultural history, remaining more concerned with the church, government ...

A recent article is examining the possibility that a contingent of soldiers from the Mediterranean fought at the Battle of Talas River in 36...

How much were two women worth in 11th century Iberia? For the Vikings the price was a blanket of wolf skin, a sword, a shirt, three scarves...

For most people, martial arts are inexplicably tied to the Far East. However, as special guest author John Clement of the Association For...

Historians of the Fourth Crusade (1202-04) have been seeking explanations why the crusaders decided to sail to the Byzantine capital of Cons...

The mythos of the assassin fascinates even as it horrifies. It fascinates because it allows for the actions of one to bring down a corrupt o...

Today, March 29th, should be a significant and melancholy date in the English calendar, known and marked by all schoolchildren. For on Palm...

Millennia before modern-day military recruiters talked up potential soldiers in shopping malls or put up posters, one Roman city took a rath...

A unique project about the historical warship the Mary Rose which is providing information about life in medieval times is benefitting from ...

A crew of Viking mercenaries – some of the fiercest and most feared killers in the medieval world – could be the occupants of a mysterious m...