Cersei Lannister and her brother Jaime in Game of Thrones.
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The new series will bring several strong women into conflict with each other – just like the Wars of the Roses.
In Sir Thomas Malory’s ‘Le Morte d'Arthur,’ a character complains that young people are too sexually promiscuous.
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The anxiety that young people are messing things up goes back centuries.
Passion, Lament, Glory at Melbourne’s St. Paul’s Cathedral in 2017.
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Each year at Easter, Christians recreate the spectacularly violent end of Jesus’s life, raising some tough questions about the depiction of suffering on stage.
The abandoned medieval village of Wharram Percy, where fears of the walking dead were acted out.
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Whatever drove villagers to dig up the dead and mutilate their corpses may seem to strange to us, but it was evidently real for them.
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Trump would not have had a great time navigating the political intrigue presented in the Icelandic Sagas.
Spinning, Warping and Weaving the Wool (1594-1596) by Isaac Claesz. van Swanenburg.
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In 15th and 16th century France, two female textile guilds - comprised of single women and wives working independently of their husbands - wielded great power. By the end of the 18th century, they had been dismantled.
Cupid shoots an arrow in the 'Roman de la Rose'. 14th century, MS NLW 5016 // Wikimedia Commons
Lettuce leaves and purgatives might ease your aching heart.
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Historic heroes like King Arthur have helped audiences through the ages to cope with troubling times.
The lyrical beauty of Arabic inspired many poets, writers.
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The teaching of Islam is often limited to its religious practice. How Christians, Jews and Muslims borrowed freely from each other in the realm of art, music, and literature is seldom discussed.
Alongside a road, under the ground a medieval manor lies waiting.
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Ploughing his life savings into buying the land under which the lost city lies, Stuart Wilson has made a once-in-a-lifetime discovery.
A comic ending - in the sense of Shakespeare’s comedies - would see Jon Snow marry Daenerys and live happily ever after.
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‘Winter is Coming’ and ‘All Men Must Die’ are Game of Thrones’ watchwords. But do they offer clues to an ending for the show – and the books?
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A thousand years of historical sources make it clear that migraine is more than just a headache.
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This week’s episode of Game of Thrones saw a battle scene that some have claimed to be the greatest TV has ever seen.
How many of these do you find in history books?
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The medieval period wasn’t always dark and full of terrors
St Thomas Becket looks down from Canterbury cathedral’s window.
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Henry II wouldn’t be amused – but rehoming relics is a way of making peace with the past.
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It looks as if the story of the red priestess Melisandre is only just getting started. But is she a prophet, or a witch?
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What are the implications of the return of the Dothraki? Their real-life equivalent may have the answer.
Alteractions between town and gown go back a long way.
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It could all get rather violent.
Like 1066 all over again: William had his work cut out to subdue the Saxons.
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Anglo-Saxon opposition to the Norman conquest lasted for years after the Battle of Hastings.
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Our expert joins the dots between the ancient kingdoms of yore and today’s Northern Powerhouse.