20 Persistent Myths About Medieval Life Debunked
Reading Time: 18 minutes Movies are full of them. Meme pages thrive on them. Myths about medieval life contain a lot of misinformation,…
Reading Time: 18 minutes 
Reading Time: 18 minutes The Reconquista Explained: The Rise of Catholic Iberia
Reading Time: 24 minutes Reconquista is the name often given to the long struggle that reshaped Spain and Portugal over roughly eight centuries….
Philip IV’s Blueprint for Destroying the Knights Templar
Reading Time: 21 minutes On Friday, October 13, 1307, a few minutes before dawn, officials of the King of France began arresting Knights…
How the Black Death Reshaped Europe’s Economy and Society
Reading Time: 14 minutes The Black Death arrived in Europe in 1347 and traveled rapidly through trade routes across the continent by 1351….
Martin Luther and the Reformation That Remade Europe
Reading Time: 20 minutes It is hard to separate Martin Luther from the Reformation, or both of them from the crisis of Europe…
How John Hunyadi Became Europe’s Shield Against the Ottomans
Reading Time: 14 minutes John Hunyadi was the bulwark of Europe in the 15th century when the Ottoman Empire expanded continuously into the…
11 Famous German Knights Who Shaped Medieval History
Reading Time: 25 minutes The Middle Ages were a time of war, conquest and chivalry, and few were more at home in this…
