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2 days ago · Charlemagne is the main figure of the medieval literary cycle known as the Matter of France. Works in this cycle, which originated during the period of the Crusades , centre on characterisations of the emperor as a leader of Christian knights in wars against Muslims.
2 days ago · By the 5th century BC, the tribes later called Gauls had migrated from Central France to the Mediterranean coast. Gallic invaders settled the Po Valley in the 4th century BC, defeated Roman forces in a battle under Brennus in 390 BC, and raided Italy as far south as Sicily.
5 days ago · The term Angevin Empire (/ ˈ æ n dʒ ɪ v ɪ n /; French: Empire Plantagenêt) describes the possessions held by the House of Plantagenet during the 12th and 13th centuries, when they ruled over an area covering roughly all of present-day England, half of France, and parts of Ireland and Wales, and had further influence over much of the ...
5 days ago · The fortified medieval town of Provins, just 92 km (57 mi) south-east of Paris, has barely changed since the 17th century. Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a million tourists visit every year to admire the town which was, in the 10th century, the third most important in the kingdom of France after Paris and Rouen.
4 days ago · These three chapters collectively explore the slow and uneven effort to focus religious life in the parish and improve the education and discipline of the parish clergy who were intended, at least within clerical circles, to be the primary source for change in the Church.
3 days ago · Chapter 3 is devoted to the key role of the majority of queens – that of being a mother, producing the king’s children and protecting his lineage. Laynesmith wisely identifies motherhood as part of, not distinct from, a queen’s public activity.
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4 days ago · Piecing the fragments of a medieval love story. The true-life Romeo and Juliet romance between a Christian girl and a Jewish boy in medieval France spurred Stefan Hertmans to write a historical fiction about their tale of woe.
