The middle ages and the movies

eight key films

From Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal to Monty Python, an investigation into how eight key films have shaped our understanding of the medieval world. In The Middle Ages and the Movies, eminent historian Robert Bartlett takes a fresh, cogent look at how our view ...

Blood Royal

dynastic politics in Medieval Europe

Throughout medieval Europe, for hundreds of years, monarchy was the way that politics worked in most countries. This meant power was in the hands of a family - a dynasty; that politics was family politics; and political life was shaped by the births, marriages and deaths ...

The hanged man

a story of miracle, memory, and colonialism in the middle ages

Seven hundred years ago, executioners led a Welsh rebel named William Cragh to a wintry hill to be hanged. They placed a noose around his neck, dropped him from the gallows, and later pronounced him dead. But was he dead? While no less than nine ...

The hanged man

a story of miracle, memory, and colinialism in the Middle Ages

Panorama medieval

Le monde médiéval

Le Monde médiéval restitue une époque clé de la civilisation européenne à travers une série d'illustrations d'une grande richesse, doublées d'un commentaire érudit et vivant. Organisé par thèmes, assortis de renvois, ce livre propose au lecteur d'explorer et de comprendre les ...