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Charles Martel: What the Legend Leaves Out
Charles Martel did not call himself the saviour of Europe.
Charles Martel did not call himself the saviour of Europe. Later writers did that for him, mostly after he was safely dead.
The Manuscript Gap Behind the Pope Joan Legend
A pope collapses mid-procession.
A pope collapses mid-procession. Cardinals push through the crowd. A child is born in the street, and the papacy’s most durable scandal begins. The legend has survived eight centuries. The paper trail behin...
Was Charlemagne's Coronation Really a Surprise?
On Christmas Day in the year 800, a Frankish warlord knelt to pray in Old St Peter’s Basilica and rose again as Emperor of the Romans.
On Christmas Day in the year 800, a Frankish warlord knelt to pray in Old St Peter’s Basilica and rose a...
Medieval Childhood: What the Evidence Actually Shows
The Ariès Problem: One Bad Thesis, Sixty Years of Distortion, and What the Coroners' Rolls Actually Show
The most influential claim about medieval childhood was made in 1960 by a French historian who had engaged very little with coroners’...
Review: Offa: King of the Mercians
Rory Naismith | Yale University Press, 2026 | Book Review
Offa, king of the Mercians from 757 to 796, is one of those rulers whose name has survived better than the man himself.
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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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