"Medieval" Blogs & Blog Posts

Medieval fantasy themes, swords and wizards have always been part of heavy metal and I have to admit, I'm a big fan when all this come together.   So when a band comes along that goes on stage completely in costumes and make-up and whose memb...

                                         aerial view of Angkor Wattotally surrounded by wallWhen the Khmer Empire came to power, Hinduism became...

In the Christian tradition, journeying was associated with conversion: all pil­g­rim roads potentially led to Damas­cus. All Christians were stained with sin in his life, but individuals’ motives for going on pilgrimage differed from person to p...

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’...