Some Nasty & Evil Medieval Individuals Who You'll Be Glad Are Long Gone...
Hated by their contemporaries they earned nicknames like Accursed, Hater of Sunlight and Monster during the Middle Ages. In this video we discuss three individuals who acted with violence, treachery a...
17 Jan 202313min
A Day in the Life of the Knights Templar: The Elite Fighting Force of the Medieval Times
In this video, which is part of our day in the life series, we discuss what it was like to be a member of the elite fighting force of the day. Taking vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, they were...
12 Jan 202312min
Death by Drowning: A Medieval Execution of Breathtaking Suffering...
Over thousands of years human beings have spent an inordinate amount of time working out how to kill one another. So, it wasn’t long before they had the idea of using drowning as a form of lethal puni...
10 Jan 202311min
A Day in the Life of a Medieval Prostitute: Els von Eystett
They say it is “the oldest profession in the world”. In Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt there were temples dedicated to ‘sacred prostitution’. There are ancient Sumerian records dating back to 2400 BCE ...
5 Jan 202312min
Gilles de Rais: The Medieval Serial Killer Who Sold His Soul to The Devil...
He was the right-hand man of Joan of Arc and the single richest and most powerful nobleman of Anjou. He was a war hero, the Marshall of France. But he has also been described as the most horrific seri...
3 Jan 202311min
A 'Hilarious' Compilation of Medieval Jokes and Humour!
What did people in the Middle Ages really find funny? It would seem that the same things have been found to be amusing right across the ages. Many of the riddles that the Medievals told have double en...
29 Des 202211min
A Collection of Disturbing, Strange, Funny & Odd Tales From the Medieval Times...
The Middle Ages is often thought of as a dark period in our history and from that time there are many dark tales. Here we have put together seven of them for you. Some are creepy, others funny but all...
27 Des 202212min
Contraception, Birth Rituals & The Feast of Fools: Bizarre Things Considered Normal in Medieval Era
Before the Enlightenment the Medievals had no choice but to use their imaginations to make sense of the world around them. Because of the enormous influence that the Church held over their daily lives...
22 Des 202210min
