Did medieval people really think the Earth was flat? It’s one of the most persistent myths about the Middle Ages. So naturally, we had to bust it. 🎧 Medieval Mythbusting: Mud, Misery and Other Medieval Myths medievalarchives.com/98
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Medieval Mythbusting: Mud, Misery and Other Medieval Myths
Medieval Mythbusting: Mud, Misery and Other Medieval Myths
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Everyone in the Middle Ages was filthy, short, drunk and dead by 30. The new Medieval Archives Podcast is out: Medieval Mythbusting: Mud, Misery and Other Medieval Myths 8 big myths + a lightning round. 🎧 medievalarchives.com/98
Medieval News Weekly: Rare Silver, Little England and Medieval Plumbing
Medieval News Weekly: Rare Silver, Little England and Medieval Plumbing
Medieval News Weekly • 09 Oct 2026 Rare Silver, Little England and Medieval Plumbing A silver hoard from the medieval Baltic world, Anglo-Saxon coins beneath a Roman palace, and the practical infrastructure of monasteries and hospitals lead this week’s discoveries. Together, the stories show medieval communities through the objects they carried, the money they spent,
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Medieval News Weekly: Scottish Monastery, Cathedral Spire, Medieval Heating and Pamplona’s Hidden Gate
Medieval News Weekly: Scottish Monastery, Cathedral Spire, Medieval Heating and Pamplona’s Hidden Gate
Medieval News Weekly • 01 Oct 2026 Scottish Monastery, Cathedral Spire, Medieval Heating and Pamplona’s Hidden Gate The medieval world continues to emerge from unexpected places. Community excavations on a small Scottish island are revealing a major early Christian center, while conservators in Glasgow have begun the careful reconstruction of a fifteenth-century spire. In Basel,
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I picked 10. Now tell me what I got wrong. What medieval movie based on a true story should have made the list? Bonus points if it's something most people haven't seen.
If you've never seen Medieval (2022), here's your excuse. Ben Foster plays Jan Žižka, one of the greatest military commanders of the late Middle Ages. The movie imagines the poorly documented years before Žižka became a legend. He's #3 on my list medievalarchives.com/2026/09/25/1...
You get ONE medieval movie tonight. 🏹 Braveheart ⚔️ The Last Duel 👑 Outlaw King 🏰 Kingdom of Heaven What are you watching? And yes, the director's cut of Kingdom of Heaven counts. 😄
A king takes the English throne. And Jerusalem falls after 88 years of Crusader rule. This week’s Weekly Herald covers Henry IV, William the Conqueror, Frederick II, Saladin and more Subscribe free and get the next issue delivered straight to your inbox: medievalarchives.com/subscribe/
The Balian of Ibelin you meet in Kingdom of Heaven is a French blacksmith who discovers he's the illegitimate son of a crusader nobleman. The real Balian was a member of one of the most powerful families in the Kingdom of Jerusalem. medievalarchives.com/2026/09/25/1...
Braveheart is a fantastic movie. It is also a fantastic way to annoy a medieval historian. No blue-painted William Wallace. No affair with Princess Isabella. So here's the question: How historically inaccurate can a historical movie be and still be a great historical movie
Medieval News Weekly: Viking Silver, Hidden Viruses, Shipwreck Inscriptions and a Lost Castle
Medieval News Weekly: Viking Silver, Hidden Viruses, Shipwreck Inscriptions and a Lost Castle
Medieval News Weekly • 25 July 2026 Viking Silver, Hidden Viruses, Medieval Trade and a Castle Hiding in Plain Sight The Middle Ages continue to surprise us. A record-breaking silver hoard has emerged from the Finnish countryside, while genetic traces preserved in parchment are revealing diseases carried by the animals whose skins became medieval books.
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🎬 10 Medieval Movies Based on True Stories Hollywood has turned some incredible medieval stories into movies. Sometimes they got surprisingly close to the history. Sometimes...well, they didn't medievalarchives.com/2026/09/25/1...
Pope John IV: The Dalmatian Pope Who Ransomed Captives and Fought Heresy
Pope John IV: The Dalmatian Pope Who Ransomed Captives and Fought Heresy
Pope John IV: The Dalmatian Pope Who Ransomed Captives and Fought Heresy Pope John IV never crowned an emperor, launched a crusade, or ruled long enough to become one of the famous names of the medieval Papacy. Yet during his brief pontificate, John confronted one of the most divisive theological controversies of the seventh century,
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My #1 medieval historical novel? The Pillars of the Earth. Cathedral building, the Anarchy, religion, politics, craftsmen and ordinary life all wrapped into one enormous story. See what made #2–#10: medievalarchives.com/2026/09/18/1...
Of Mud and Crown: A Young Author’s Journey Through Medieval Bohemia
Of Mud and Crown: A Young Author’s Journey Through Medieval Bohemia
Of Mud and Crown: A Young Author’s Journey Through Medieval Bohemia Playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance can send you down a rabbit hole of medieval history. For 13-year-old Erik Kitaev, playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance led to a fascination with medieval Bohemia with an unexpected outcome: he wrote a novel. The novel, Of Mud and Crown, is
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Some historical novels entertain you. The really good ones send you looking for the history afterward. These are 10 medieval historical novels that did exactly that. medievalarchives.com/2026/09/18/1...
This week in The Weekly Herald, Harold races north and crushes a Viking invasion at Stamford Bridge, Saladin closes in on Jerusalem, Edward II dies under mysterious circumstances, and rival popes divide Christendom. 📜 Stamford Bridge, Saladin & a Divided Church Read this week’s Weekly Herald:
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The Viking invasion collapses at Stamford Bridge, Jerusalem comes under siege, Edward II dies under mysterious circumstances, and Christendom fractures in the Western Schism.
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You can only keep ONE. 📚 The Pillars of the Earth • The Last Kingdom • The Name of the Rose • The Land Beyond the Sea Which are you taking? My complete Top 10: medievalarchives.com/2026/09/18/1...
10 Medieval Historical Novels That Bring the Middle Ages to Life
10 Medieval Historical Novels That Bring the Middle Ages to Life
10 Medieval Historical Novels That Bring the Middle Ages to Life I love reading a good book. My main genres are fantasy, sci-fi and historical fiction. While sci-fi isn’t really medieval a case could be made for fantasy. And I’ll make that case at a later time. But historical fiction set in the Middle Ages,
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What happens when novelists put people back into medieval history? From Viking Age England, the Crusader States and the battlefields of France, I've picked 10 historical novels that bring the Middle Ages to life. Which ones have you read? medievalarchives.com/2026/09/18/1...
Pope Sergius III: Murder, Scandal, and the Dark Age of the Papacy
Pope Sergius III: Murder, Scandal, and the Dark Age of the Papacy
Pope Sergius III: Murder, Scandal, and the Dark Age of the Papacy If the story of Pope Stephen VI and the Cadaver Synod seems like the moment the medieval Papacy reached rock bottom, Pope Sergius III offers an uncomfortable counterargument. His reign has nearly everything you could ask for in a medieval political thriller: disputed
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The Last Samurai – The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori by Mark Ravina
The Last Samurai – The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori by Mark Ravina
Ever since watching the movie The Last Samurai starring Tom Cruise and Ken Watanabe, I have admired and been fascinated by feudal Japan and the samurai. The movie, based on various historical figures and events from 19th-century Japan, portrays the contrast between traditionalism and modernity. On one hand, you had the traditional warrior samurai, living
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How Medieval Heraldry Helped People Identify Nobles, Knights, And Armies
How Medieval Heraldry Helped People Identify Nobles, Knights, And Armies
For those who lived in medieval Europe, identifying one another was not a given. No modern identity cards, no photographs, or standardised uniforms to identify everyone with certainty in an instant; no records on a computer for immediate verification of who someone was. It got even more complicated on a battlefield. Knights were armored from
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Pope John XV: Politics, Power, and the First Papal Canonization
Pope John XV: Politics, Power, and the First Papal Canonization
Pope John XV: Politics, Power, and the First Papal Canonization Pope John XV ruled the Catholic Church from 985 to 996, during one of the most politically fragile periods in medieval papal history. The papacy of the late tenth century was not the commanding institution it would later become under reforming popes like Gregory VII.
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