5 stories tagged medieval-history, newest first.
75 points by XzetaU8 | 36 comments
Open-access Antiquity research article using tooth-enamel lead levels from cemeteries to date and examine the social dynamics of Peak District lead production, AD 600–1500.
125 points by samizdis | 128 comments
Phys.org news article on research showing rabbits were a royal luxury in medieval England until the Black Death; the capture shows only a Cloudflare verification page.
26 points by wolfi1 | 6 comments
A 2015 Mary Sue article examining whether coconuts could plausibly have been in medieval Britain, as joked about in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
143 points by RickJWagner | 40 comments
Big Think article by Robin Wigglesworth on how a failed 12th-century Venetian crusade against Constantinople led Venice to create the world's first bond market.
36 points by prismatic | 19 comments
A History Today column arguing that the Bayeux Tapestry, returning to England, is a Norman artwork and that Anglo-Saxon perspectives must be sought elsewhere.