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Monks at War: Why the Middle Ages Invented Military Orders
The idea still unsettles modern readers: men who swore monastic vows, renounced property and marriage, and yet lived by the sword.
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Review: Royal Childbirth in the Middle Ages
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Medieval Cog: The Ship That Made Ports Boom
The medieval cog was never meant to be beautiful.
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Editor’s Book Picks – February 2026
Five February picks on medieval power, rivalry, women’s voices, and the wider Islamic world.
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Edward the Confessor: Canonisation, Compromise, and Memory
By Dr James Turner
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Travelling the Medieval World, One Mile at a Time
Before maps, before timetables, before guarantees.
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Biology is Destiny: Gender in Medieval Thought
By Luke Daly
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Celtic Britons: Britain’s First Peoples and Their Legacy
The Celtic Britons we met in the main article do not speak for themselves.
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Skipsea Castle: A Lost Lordship in East Yorkshire
The discovery of an Anglo-Saxon lordly centre beneath Skipsea Castle changes more than the site’s origin story.
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