In 1381, thousands of English peasants rose up in one of the most dramatic uprisings of the Middle Ages. But what drove them to revolt? In this video, we break down the causes – from crushing ...

Medieval peasants worked only about 150 days out of the year. The Church believed it was important to keep them happy with frequent, mandatory holidays. You have less free time than a Medieval ...

Her dazzling, jocular novel “The Pretender” recounts the journey of one John Collan, from his anonymous boyhood in a rural village to a claim, as Edward Plantagenet, on the English monarchy ...

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LONDON — It’s around the year 1480, and a wandering English bard walks into a bar. What does he say to the crowd of drunken peasants gathered inside? A series of irreverent jokes about ...