Explore the achievements and challenges in the Middle Ages. From knights and castles to intriguing Conquerors throughout Medieval History.
The Battle of Catraeth was a famous and crushing defeat recorded in Welsh records. Was it one of King Aedan of Dal Riada’s conflicts?
Traditional understanding suggests that the Celts arrived in Britain as an invading force during the Iron Age. But does the evidence support this view?
What precipitated the spread of Christianity during the Middle Ages?
Relics played a significant role in medieval Christianity and many people traveled vast distances to see them.
Scholars regard Pope Gregory the Great as the last of the Latin Fathers and the founder of the Medieval Papacy.
In the final decades of the 13th century Edward I built a series of castles in northern Wales. Here is an overview of four of them.
Suleiman the Magnificent is considered the greatest Ottoman Sultan. His powerful mind brought a golden age to the Ottoman Empire.
According to Norse sagas, Erik the Red led the first Viking settlement of Greenland in the 980s CE. Does archaeology support the story of the sagas?