Medieval and Renaissance History

Gather round all ye fair maidens and travel back to medieval times to explore the history, people, culture, and events of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

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  • The Black Death strikes Italy
    The Black Death
  • French Medieval Clothing
    14 Medieval Guilds That You Never Knew Existed
  • Plague doctor mask
    The Arrival and Spread of the Black Plague in Europe
  • Dance of Death
    How to Avoid the Plague
  • Michelangelo Buonarroti
    Michelangelo Portrait Gallery
  • What You Need to Know About the Epic Poem 'Beowulf'
  • Bas-Relief of Justinian in the U.S. House of Representatives chamber
    The Code of Justinian (Codex Justinianus)
  • Renaissance woman
    Love Poems of the English Renaissance
  • St. Peter's in Rome
    The Origin and Decline of the Papal States
  • Mezquita de Djenne (Mali)
    The Kingdom of Mali and the Splendor of Medieval Africa
  • Alfred the Great Quotations
  • "Medieval Europe" book cover
    The Top 8 Medieval History Books
  • Map of the U.K.
    Heptarchy
  • Dark Legacy: The Origin of the First Crusade
  • National Assembly session for the abolition of privileges and feudal rights, Versailles, August 4, 1789
    The Problem With Feudalism
  • Sean Connery In 'Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade'
    Charlemagne Quotes
  • Alchemists engaged in distillation
    Alchemy in the Middle Ages
  • Medieval Scotish castle near Isle of Skye called Eilean Donan
    What Does "Medieval" Mean?
  • Charlemagne statue, Aachen Rathaus
    The History of the Saxons
  • Medieval Knight in Armor
    Top 6 Books About Medieval Knights
  • Marble bust of Empreror Theodosius II, 5th c., in the Louvre Museum
    The Theodosian Code
  • Richard and the Master of St. John vintage color engraving
    Crusades Basics
  • Male bailiff holding bible for witness in legal trial courtroom
    What Is a Bailiff?
  • Avignon Cathedral and Palais des Papes
    The Avignon Papacy - When the Popes Resided in France
  • Israel, Jerusalem, holy city, the roofs of the Muslim District
    The Holy Land
  • Charlemagne Crowned by Pope Leo III, December 25th, 800
    Chansons de Geste
  • statue of a nobleman
    What Is a Baron?
  • Group of Knights Hospitaller
    The Knights Hospitaller - Defenders of Sick and Injured Pilgrims
  • Book of Kells, 8th C Irish manuscript
    The Book of Kells: Splendid Illuminated Manuscript
  • Pope Pontian I
    Popes Who Resigned
  • Last Banquet of Alboin king of the Lombards, 6th Century
    The Lombards: A Germanic Tribe in Northern Italy
  • St. Anthony, the Father of Monasticism, reads on a hill in a drawing from 1519
    Preserving Middle Age Information
  • Math on a Chalk Board
    The History of Algebra
  • The Château de Saumur
    Defining the Middle Ages
  • Portrait of Pope Gregory I by Francisco de Zurbaran
    Chronological List of Medieval Popes
  • 12th- or 13th-century Templar Knights and crusaders in a 19th-century illustration
    The Knights Templar, Known as the Warrior Monks
  • The First Tudor King
    The Tudor Dynasty
  • From the 15th century
    Joan of Arc Picture Gallery
  • King of the Franks dictates the Salic Law
    The Salic Law
  • Timeline by Michael Crichton
    'Timeline' by Michael Crichton
  • Bulgarians defeat the Byzantines
    Bulgars, Bulgaria, and Bulgarians
  • Chateau Gaillard in Normandy, France
    Chateau Gaillard
  • Louis I the Pious, conducts a division of the kingdom among his children
    The Treaty of Verdun
  • Early marble sculpture
    Donatello Sculpture Gallery
  • An ornate carved stone cross at the center of a domed church building.
    How Old Is 'the Dream of the Rood' and What Does It Mean?
  • Bálint Kiss - Portrait of a Thegn
    Thegn - Anglo-Saxon Thegn or Thane
  • Directory to passages in multiple Gospels
    Images from the Book of Kells
  • Why Bother with Beowulf?
  • Ivar and Ubba Slaying Christians in Northern England
    Biography of Ivar the Boneless, Ragnar Lodbrok's son
  • Bearded Viking Warrior Chief Male near farmhouse surroundings
    Who Was the Real Ragnar Lodbrok?
  • Statue of Leif Erikson, Reykjavik
    Leif Erikson: First European in North America
  • The statue of El Cid in Burgos, Spain
    Biography of El Cid, Medieval Spanish Hero
  • Meeting of scholars, bishops, cardinals, and Antipope John XXIII in the cathedral of Constance
    The Council of Constance, End of the Catholic Church's Great Schism
  • Mid-19th century print by Paul Dumouza depicting Ibn Battuta in Egypt.
    The Life and Travels of Ibn Battuta, World Explorer and Writer
  • Biography of Christine de Pizan, Medieval Writer and Thinker
  • Key events in Renaissance history timeline
    Renaissance Timeline: Philosophy, Politics, Religion, and Science
  • Marriage of the Virgin by Giotto
    Giotto di Bondone
  • Justinian I
    Quotations from Emperor Justinian I
  • Richard the Lionheart from a 12th-Century Codex
    Richard the Lionheart
  • Charles the Great
    What Made Charlemagne so Great?
  • Hippodrome of Byzantinum before the ottoman conquest
    Overview of the Nika Revolt
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