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Review: The Fifth Crusade - A History of the Epic Campaign to Conquer Egypt
Dr Thomas Smith | Yale University Press, 2026 | Book Review
The Fifth Crusade ended in failure. But Thomas Smith’s new history raises a more interesting question: how did an expedition that came so close to success manage to lose almost ev...
The Violent Men Chivalry Was Never Built to Stop
Every medieval society that armed men also had to work out how to live with them. Chivalry was one answer. It was not a good one.
Armed, skilled, and dangerous men are a problem for any ruler, medieval or otherwise. You need them to fight...
A Murder Mystery in Reverse: What the Coins Say About Offa and Æthelberht
We know who did it. We know how. What we do not know is why, and that gap is precisely what turned a political killing into a saint's cult.
In 794, Offa of Mercia, the most powerful king in Anglo-Saxon England, had Æthelberht II of East An...
Selja's Third Wall: What Three Years of Discoveries Are Not Telling Us Yet
Archaeologists have now found three things at Selja in three years that nobody expected to be there.
In July 2026, NIKU building archaeologist Regin Meyer traced a stone wall foundation running south from Selja’s harbour, well outside the...
Five Books for the Quiet Days of August
Holiday reading lists are usually an excuse to recycle the same three or four titles every outlet already covers.
Holiday reading lists are usually an excuse to recycle the same three or four titles every outlet already covers. This one is...
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Luciano Anastasi, founder of HistoryMedieval, curates medieval history—articles, sources, and book reviews—making a thousand years of evidence readable for scholars, teachers, students, and enthusiasts.
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