Medieval Life and Death

Get the lowdown on everyday life in the medieval era with a week of talks from leading historians

Pigs in the medieval city. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hand-coloured engraving of someone being tortured on the wheel.

Stretched, crushed and impaled10 shocking torture methods from medieval history

HistoryExtra Academy video lectureFaith and worship in late-medieval England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Decameron: sex, plague, and a medieval Love Island. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Joan of Arc: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Capetians: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Plague, leprosy & murder: unlocking the secrets of medieval bones. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Colour illustration of people gathering outside a church during the Middle Ages

The medieval church: your guide to religion and worship in the Middle Ages

Eggs, bunnies and Jesus Christ: the history and origins of Easter

An architectural grotesque of a woman displaying her vulva

How naughty was the past? The hidden depths of the medieval church

Two lovers rest after a hunt, Codex Manesse

Saturday lecture: Medieval love and marriage. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tournament between the Duke of Brittany and the Duke of Bourbon. (Photo by Christophel Fine Art/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

BlogMedieval(ish) matters #7: what it meant to be 'blue' in the Middle Ages (and more killer rabbits). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Saturday lecture: Medieval disease and medicine. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Saturday lecture: Medieval food. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Medieval punishments, Toulouse, 14th century. (Photo by Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

How bloody was medieval life?

Saturday lecture: Medieval crime and violence. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elma Brenner on medieval wellbeing: "People in the Middle Ages were absolutely focused on staying healthy"

A Pictish stone carving featuring a salmon

BlogMedieval(ish) matters #3: the salmon of knowledge, rolling Roman mosaics, eels, and Crusades. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Dissection of human cadaver by physicians

Ask the medieval doctor: 6 ailments and their treatments. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Medieval banquet

What time of the day did medieval people eat?

An illumination depicts medieval women embroidering

Medieval misconceptions: 12 myths about life in the Middle Ages – busted

Chris WoolgarMedieval food. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elma BrennerMedieval disease and medicine. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hannah SkodaViolence in the Middle Ages. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sally Dixon-SmithMedieval love and marriage. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Image of a medieval skull showing arrow injury

BlogMedieval(ish) matters #2: arrows in the eye, The Last Kingdom, Viking dogs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Old Norse: Page from the manuscript Codex Regius, which was written in Iceland and contains the poems of elder Edda. (Photo by Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

BlogMedieval matters #1: The Last Kingdom, Robin Hood and how to learn Old Norse in lockdown. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Dance of Death, printed by Jacob Meydenbach, Germany 1492. (Photo by Alamy)

The Black Death and social change. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The effects of the disease known as the Black Death

Black Death quarantine: how did we try to contain the most deadly disease in history?

Medieval medicine. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.