Illustrated Medieval scene from the Romance of Lancelot

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Naming of St John the Baptist, c12th century. From a wall painting in the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Medieval baby names: what were people called in the Middle Ages?

Edward the Confessor seated at a banquet

Edward the Confessor: England’s holy hardman

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The battle of Dover, 24 August 1217, (image c1880). (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

Eustace the Monk: one of medieval Europe's unholiest holy men

In 802 Charlemagne took delivery of an elephant, sent to him by Harun al-Rashid, the caliph in Baghdad. Here, a manuscript illumination from a late 12th century English Latin bestiary. (Image by Alamy)

8 turning points in medieval European history

The storming of Beziers

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A photograph of the Tower of London, from the river

Anne Boleyn, Beefeaters, Guy Fawkes and the princes: a brief history of the Tower of London

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Q&A: Why and how did the Aztecs practise human sacrifice?

A watermill, with fish nets and eel traps visible beneath the waters of the mill leat Luttrell Psalter. England, c 1325-1335. (Photo by Alamy)

Medieval eels and Englishness. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Simon de Montfort and England’s First Revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A Fool Rebuked by God, 14th-century psalter. (Photo by Heritage Arts/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

Medieval marginalia: exploring 'doodles' from the Middle Ages

A sign of the devil or a miracle cure? How people felt about spiders in the Middle Ages

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Empress Matilda

Empress Matilda, daughter of Henry I: a queen in a king’s world

An illustration depicting the deposition of the body of Edward the Confessor in the tomb at Westminster in 1066. (

Was the early medieval period a "golden age" for the elderly?

King Arthur and a hand holding the sword Excalibur.

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