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The Uprising (2026): Does History Need a Hero?
Paul Greengrass brings the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 to the screen, but his decision to place a fictional protagonist at its centre raises a question about how we remember medieval rebellions.
The Rebellion That Did Not Need a Hero
Medieval Princesses: Power, Choice and the Limits of Freedom
Behind the marriages, convent walls and royal titles, how much control did medieval princesses really have over their lives?
An editorial companion to Sharon Bennett Connolly’s Princesses of the Norman World: Faith and Fortune.
The Umayyad Paradox
An Islamic empire ruled by an Arab elite: how the first Muslim dynasty balanced faith, political power and the inheritance of older empires.
An Islamic Empire, but whose Empire?
When Medieval Traditions Survive Their Own World
What Johan Huizinga's vision of the late Middle Ages reveals about the changing power of rituals, symbols and ceremonies.
This is an editorial companion to “When Form Outlives Its World: Huizinga and the Late Medieval Threshold”, by Robert...
Why the Hanseatic League Was Never Really an Empire
How a loose network of merchants and towns wielded power across northern Europe without ever becoming a state.
The Hanseatic League is often described as a medieval trading empire. The phrase is understandable. At its height, Hanseatic mer...
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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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