Comment voyageait on au Moyen Âge ?

Aujourd’hui, je vous raconte l’histoire de la courageuse Shéhérazade.C’est dans les contrées lointaines de la Perse antique que sévit le roi Shariar. Cet homme terrible a une habitude un peu particulière : chaque jour, il prend une nouvelle épouse et la condamne à mort dès l’aube ...  Show more

Que serait le « preux chevalier » sans son « fidèle écuyer » ? Bah clairement, il aurait moins fière allure, et il sentirait peut-être moins la rose ! Même si dans tous les cas il devait pas sentir la rose vous me direz… Bref ! En tout cas, c’est difficile de séparer les deux : d ...  Show more

From 800 to 1300 CE, a great religious movement swept Mesoamerica, the Southwest, and the Mississippi valley. This Medieval Warm Period was one of the most consequential eras in North American history. In this era, the continent was shaped by climate change or – as its peoples ...

If you are planning - or dreaming of - your next holiday, have you stopped to wonder whether our medieval counterparts did exactly the same thing? Why did people travel in the Middle Ages, and what was the experience like for them? Were there any similarities with travelling ...

Dan Jones explores the similarities and differences between the medieval experience and our lives today   In what ways was the medieval era surprisingly modern? Dan Jones, whose latest book is Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages, reveals the similarities and diff ...  Show more

Throughout history, there have been plenty of hugely destructive, catastrophic moments. And yet somehow the human race managed to live on until today. So how did people in the Medieval period find ways to survive, for example, a siege of their city, or a natural disaster, or p ...