In the Middle Ages, England emerged as one of the most influential and powerful kingdoms in Europe – a far cry from its ...

He was not only king of England, but also ruled over most of Wales, Normandy, Anjou, Gascony and other parts of France (acquired through his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine). Henry, son of ...

Queenship was transformed in the early Middle Ages, as power came to be derived not just from marriage, but from God.

Between 1000 and 1600 the number of words written and printed in England went from about 1m ... Whoever thinks the Middle Ages were all darkness has a middling understanding of history’s truths.

Race and the Construction of the Middle Ages, white supremacist theorists have seen medieval England as “available for being imaginatively constructed as an era of racial purity and military ...