Comment voyageait on au Moyen Âge ?

En cinéma, est-ce que vous êtes plutôt fleur bleue, ou rouge sang ? Comédie romantique, ou film d’horreur ? Si vous êtes fan d’histoire comme moi, vous êtes tranquille : on trouve les deux dans le film historique ! Pour les histoires d’amour, on en a des dizaines, entre Titanic, ...  Show more

Quand on fait de l’histoire, on est un peu obligé de s’intéresser au temps. Dans les deux sens du terme : la dimension temporelle, bien sûr, mesurée par toutes les civilisations à l’aide de clepsydres, horloges, sabliers… mais aussi du cycle des jours, des nuits, et des saisons. ...  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 ...