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Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen of France and England
Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the most influential women of the Middle Ages: Duchess of Aquitaine, queen of France and England, and mother of Richard the Lionheart, she played a decisive role in ...
Eleanor of Aquitaine: Who Was She and Why Did She Make European History?
Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the most in...
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Halloween, Samhain and All Saints' Day: From Medieval Roots to the Present Day
Halloween has roots much older than the costumes and pumpkins that characterize this celebration today.
Its history is related to Samhain, the Christian holidays of All Saints, and European folk tr...
Halloween Was Not Always What We Know It as Today
Halloween is celebrated every year on October 31 and today is asso...
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The Battle of Agincourt: the English longbow against the French cavalry
The Battle of Agincourt, fought in 1415 during the Hundred Years' War, pitted the army of Henry V of England against a numerically superior French force.
The mud, troop organization, and the effect...
Henry V's campaign in France in 1415
The Battle of Agincourt took place on October 25, 1415, during the Hundred Year...
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The Hundred Years' War
The Hundred Years' War pitted England and France against each other for over a century over territorial and succession disputes.
Throughout its different stages, there were major English victories,...
Causes of the Hundred Years' War
The Hundred Years' War was a conflict between England and France that began in 1337...
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William the Conqueror: From Bastard to King of England
From his birth in medieval Normandy to the conquest of England in 1066, William the Conqueror built his power through military campaigns, political alliances, and a firm defense of his dynastic rig...
William's Origins and His Illegitimate Birth
William the Conqueror was born around 1027 or 1028 in Falaise, a town i...
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Medieval medicine: remedies, bloodletting, and barbers
Can you imagine going to the doctor and having them prescribe medicinal plants, wounds, or decide when to treat you based on the position of the stars? Or being operated on by the same person who t...
Doctors and treatments in the Middle Ages
A visit to the doctor during the Middle Ages could begin in a way that wou...
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The Battle of Hastings: William of Normandy against Harold II
How could a single battle change the destiny of England forever?
On October 14, 1066, two armies clashed in a fight for the English crown in which strategy, endurance, and decisions made in the hea...
The conflict that decided who would rule England in 1066
The Battle of Hastings took place on October 14, 1066, and ...
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Significant events for medieval military orders that took place between the 13th and 14th centuries, in October
Discover the most relevant events of the medieval military orders during the 13th and 14th centuries.
From the leadership of Hermann von Salza and the Battle of La Forbie to the rivalries in Acre a...
October brings together decisive dates for the military orders
Between the 13th and 14th centuries, the military ord...
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Crusades and Christian expansion in the East and the Peninsula
The Crusades left a profound mark on the history of the 12th and 13th centuries, both in the East and on the Iberian Peninsula, as military campaigns and clashes between Christian and Muslim powers...
Conflicts and territorial changes during the Crusades
During the 12th and 13th centuries, the Crusades were related ...
