"Medieval" Blogs & Blog Posts

Kraków’s Market Square is the centre of the city’s medieval Old Town, designed in 1257 when Kraków won its charter. The grid-like layout of the Old Town and its central square has changed little in the following centuries. Always active, t...

I left Czechoslovakia at 3.5 years old, and remembered almost nothing. But my mother thought her homeland was the most beautiful country anywhere. So tours back home as an adult were very impressive, starting with Lednice. Lednice, in English Tu...

Map of Normandy in France and Hastings in EnglandKhan AcademyConsider the issue of re-writing history over time, even when the original sources was well accepted. When reading Marco Polo’s writ­ing for example, despite it being of endless historic...

The 100 Years' War (1337-1453) was horrendous. Endless battles contin­ued between English Plantagenets and French Valois, for control of Fren­ch soil. Late in the 100 Years War, English forces occupied much of northern France, including Normandy’...

The rare tattoo was found on the foot of a person buried near a medieval monastery in Sudan, archeologists announced.

Ancient hammams/baths renovated during the Ottoman periodWiki 2010 Madrasa Halawiyebuilt in C12th alisariramThe Syrian city of Aleppo/White or Halep/Milk takes its name from a local white limestone with which the city was built. L...

In the wee hours of Sunday morning, an Australian couple—a 26-year-old woman an 34-year-old man—were visiting the Croatian city of Dubrovnik when they paused atop a medieval wall featured in Game of Thrones. Unfortunately, the woman leaned agains...