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Explore the achievements and challenges in the Middle Ages. From knights and castles to intriguing Conquerors throughout Medieval History.
Cluny Abbey was the birthplace of one of the most influential religious reform movements of the Middle Ages.
As the Mongol Empire entered into serious decline across much of Eurasia, there was one major effort to reunite Genghis Khan’s former empire under Tamerlane.
Nordic or Scottish? For the residents of Shetland, the nearest train station is in Bergen, Norway. In Orkney, they speak Norn, derived from Old Norse.
Pope Clement V’s decision to give in to the demands of King Philip IV led to the betrayal and destruction of the Knights Templar.
The Seljuks, a steppe nomadic Turkic people, laid the foundations of Turkish rule in Anatolia long before the Ottoman principality rose to power.
The marvels of ancient Greek knowledge, preserved by learned Islamic scholars and the Byzantine Empire, were reintroduced to the West during the Crusades.
Was Robin Hood real or a figure of legend? We’ll never know for sure, but the myth may originate with two notorious criminal gangs.
What made people in medieval Europe laugh? Does humor translate if taken out of its time? Discover some Renaissance and Medieval jokes.