Perhaps one of the oddest moral panics - a fear that some evil threatens the wellbeing of society - was one that arose in medieval times. Fashionable pointy-toed shoes called poulaines were alleged to ...
First launched in 2018, Cambridge’s Medieval Murder Maps plots crime scenes based on translated investigations from 700-year-old coroners’ reports. These documents were recorded in Latinand are ...
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Medieval London’s Public Executions
Public executions were a grim but powerful part of life in medieval London. In this video, we uncover how and why they were carried out, where they took place, and what they meant for the people who ...
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The Sights, Sounds, and Smells of Medieval London
London was tiny when compared to today's modern cities, but much larger than any other English town at that time. In 1300, the population stood at approximately 80,000, all crammed into one square ...
I fell into a state of dazed puzzlement at the start of this book, whose first chapter includes a remote century's bitter winter, "sour ale" in an "undercroft tavern," the stink of Newgate Jail, ...
On Monday, Oct. 28, from 5 to 6 p.m., Prof. Lauren Fogle of the History Department will be giving a lecture in Dugan 208 related to her research on Jewish conversion to Christianity in medieval ...
LONDON — A saddlemaker ambushed outside a brewhouse. A man stabbed to death after he stumbled over a heap of dung while trying to flee a fight. And a priest killed by three knife-wielding assailants, ...
A medieval London church tower has been suspended 45ft above the ground in what has been described as a “never-seen-before feat of engineering”. The tower of All Hallows Staining was balanced on ...
A medieval church tower in London was lifted 45ft above the ground to make way for a new skyscraper. Footage taken on Tuesday (23 September) shows the more than 700-year-old Tower of All Hallows ...
A medieval London church tower has been suspended 45ft above the ground in what has been described as a “never-seen-before ...
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