This ancient Bedfordshire church was abandoned when the village’s population slowly began migrating to new towns.
This now derelict church was originally constructed during the 12th century. The church was expanded over the centuries, however, was never fully completed. atlasobscura.com
If contemporary chronicles are to be believed, England’s medieval clergy may have spent as much time drinking, gambling and fornicating with prostitutes as attending to their flocks’ spiritual needs. Emma J Wells reveals why some men of the cloth simply couldn’t resist the pleasures of the flesh… historyextra.com
Did everyone die young in medieval times? And were medieval people really as dirty as we think? Ahead of our 2020 Medieval Life and Death events, historian Hannah Skoda shares a dozen little-known facts about the Middle Ages… historyextra.com
The three siblings Edward IV, George, Duke of Clarence and the future Richard III were meant to be on the same side in the Wars of the Roses. Yet the relationship between these heavyweights of the House of York was defined by jealousy, backstabbing and murder. Thomas Penn describes the great family rivalry that dogged the English throne in the later 15th century… historyextra.com
Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, was one of the most significant figures of the 15th century. A man with close royal links, he was a giant of English politics who helped plunge his country into the bloody Wars of the Roses.
He was an able administrator and a charismatic commander with several powerful friends; yet his power, lineage, ambition and fame also ensured he gained some mighty enemies, holding deep-felt enmity that, ultimately, proved resolvable only by the sword. historyhit.com
Santa Claus’ finger bone and a piece of the manger that served as Christ’s crib were among the relics gifted to an English monastery, a new analysis of a medieval manuscript has revealed.
Michael Carter, a historian at English Heritage, an organization that manages more than 400 historic buildings, found the objects listed on a 580-year-old inventory for Battle Abbey in Sussex, southeast England. msn.com
Sometimes, when we get sick, it can feel like we’d do anything to get better. But what if the remedy we needed required us to swallow animal dung?
The use of animal dung in medicine is not new to us, nor would it have been to people in the medieval world. It also wasn’t exclusive to Europe, and (believe it or not) using dung to solve our problems still hasn’t completely gone out of fashion. medievalists.net
