Medieval

Medieval scholars were the first to make the connection between maths and science and anticipated the discovery of inertia long before Newton. So why have their discoveries been forgotten, asks James Hannam.

Robert Hughes provides an Examiner's Commentary

Lucy Wooding introduces a highly significant, but often much misunderstood, cultural force.

On August 1st, 1259, the English renewed a truce which recognised Llywelyn ap Gruffydd as Prince of Wales.

Henry II was fatally injured by the Count of Montgomery during a jousting tournament. He died on July 10th, 1559.

In 1381 England witnessed a medieval ‘summer of blood’ as the lower orders flexed their muscle in what became known as the Peasants’ Revolt.

The past is more than a set of events with an inevitable outcome. Historians must strive to capture it in all its fascinating strangeness, argues Chris Wickham, as he ponders the problems of writing about the Middle Ages.

Richard Cavendish looks back at the Capetian monarch, crowned aged seven, on 23 May 1059.

The life of a most pious Christian saint, who died on April 21st, 1109.