King Cnut has the dubious honour of being the first person recorded in English history to have been disturbed by something frustratingly urgent just as he was about to enjoy a bath.
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Only five witches were executed in Wales, while thousands were sentenced to death in Scotland and England.
While the wider literature tells us that medieval women were silent and passive, their letters and embroideries tell a different story.
Your doctor’s MD emerged from the Dark Ages, where practicing rational “human medicine” was seen as an expression of faith and maintaining one’s health a religious duty.
Snails were recognised in medieval times for their unusual strength, given that they were able to carry their home on their back.
Medieval monks recorded hundreds of lunar eclipses. Centuries later, their descriptions are helping scientists unravel the role of volcanoes in historical climate change.
Medieval manuscripts are littered with images of cats – sharing their owner’s dinner, keeping them company, and even cosplaying as nuns.
Despite being cloistered in relative luxury, the holy men suffered from worms far more frequently than the general population.
The Black Death is believed to have been the most devastating pandemic in Europe’s history. Now paleoecologists and historians have cast doubt on how bad it was.
The hero of The Green Knight, played brilliantly by Dev Patel, is flawed and less than honorable. The film is a deliberately unromantic exploration of the world of King Arthur and his court.
During the European Middle Ages, parts of the world experienced warming similar to that between 1960 to 1990. But the rising temperatures we’re observing now are global and exceed the past record.
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PhD Candidate, Medieval Literature, Bangor University
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Sessional Academic in English Literature, Macquarie University
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Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland
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Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Models Theme Leader for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University
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Research Fellow in Ecology for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University
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Associate Professor of History, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Independent Max Planck research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
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Associate Professor of Volcanology and Geoscience Communication, University of Twente and Adjunct Associate Professor, Monash University
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Visiting Professor of Social Inequities and Injustice, Loughborough University
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Lecturer in Medieval History, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Senior Research Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge
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Professor, Environmental History and Historical Epidemiology, Georgetown University
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Researcher, Palaeobotany, Sapienza University of Rome
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PhD Candidate in Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge
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PhD Candidate in Creative Writing, Associate Lecturer, Aberystwyth University
