The majority of people were peasants. The Church's role in medieval life in England The Catholic Church in medieval England was hugely powerful. William I’s rapid building programme of churches ...

The Jewish Diaspora, meaning the dispersion of Jews outside their ancestral homeland, was significantly shaped by religious ...

Religion was important in England from c ... an individual had to read a verse from Psalm 51 in the Bible. In medieval England it was only priests and churchmen who could read.

Century England, a dark-skinned saint with a promiscuous past became a boundary-breaking cultural and religious icon. A new ...

In 11th-century England, a saint with an extremely dissolute past became a cultural and religious symbol that broke ...

In medieval England, women in labor wrapped birth girdles around their ... the birth girdles offered the solace and promise of faith to the parturient woman and her attendants amid religious dissent, ...

Allen Lane has signed Florence Scott’s “bold and original” history of Medieval queenship, Monarchia: A New History of the ...