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This walled medieval village is full of half-timbered and charming stone buildings, with winding streets and cobblestoned ...
The case is one of hundreds in the Medieval Murder Maps database, which uses coroners' rolls to track real cases of unnatural death in 14th-century England—now mapped across cities like London ...
A map of London shows the sites of recorded 14th-century homicides. Blue shows killings involving males; red indicates a female victim or perpetrator. Symbols denote the weapons used.
The 14th century ushered in the beginning of the bloody Hundred Years’ War with France, an epic conflict with Scotland that would last into the 16th century, famine in Northern Europe and the ...
A former 14th century monastery will re-open to visitors this month with a half-term festival and a 60-seat café. Plans have unveiled for Coventry Charterhouse by the National Trust, which has ...
ONGOLE: A set of 14th century copper plates found in Srisailam Devasthanam revealed the historical coining of 'Swarajya Punarudhharana' (restoration of independ ...
Being a queen in the 14th century was a dangerous occupation and no woman knew that better than Joanna I of Naples. She had a talent for ruling; an ability which inevitably threatened the powerful ...
In the 14th century, cut of clothing became the preeminent sign of class. As a lady of high estaat, be sure to hire the finest tailor that thou canst! —Staff writer Laura B. Martens can be ...
An excavation in Oslo's former harbor has yielded the remains of a rare iron gauntlet, likely lost by a medieval knight in the 14th century. Archaeologists with the Norwegian Institute for ...
A 14th-century illuminated Hebrew Bible featuring Jewish, Christian, and Islamic artistic styles, is being sold in September at Sotheby’s by Jacqui Safra, heir of a Syrian Lebanese-Swiss banking ...
CAIRO - Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities held a ceremony to mark the completion of multi-year renovations to the grand 14th-century mosque of Altunbugha al-Maridani in Historic Cairo.