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A survey of some of the most famous — and not-so-famous — couples in Medieval and Renaissance history and fiction.

The Carmina Burana is a collection of plays and songs found in a medieval German manuscript.

Maps of political boundaries as they stood in the sixteenth century.

Using our This Date in Medieval History resource, from your Mining Co. Guide

Abu Bakr was the closest friend and companion of Muhammad and the first Muslim caliph.

Alexius Comnenus was emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire at the time of the First Crusade.

Find a date in Medieval History, from your About.com Guide

a simple how-to on pattern-welding a sword in the early middle ages

Harun al-Rashid was the fifth Abbasid caliph. He and his fabulous court at Baghdad are immortalized in The Thousand and One Nights.

Gregory was the foremost influence in shaping the early
medieval papacy.

Basic information and useful websites about Byzantine Emperor Justinian I.

Amerigo Vespucci was a merchant and navigator who confirmed through astronomical observations that the lands Columbus had encountered were an entirely separate continent.

During his reign, King John of England was forced to sign the Magna Carta and lost most of England’s possessions in France.

Fifteen questions about the dreadful epidemic of the fourteenth century, the disease that caused it, and the strange events that it triggered.

A series of maps by your guide depicting how the dreaded 14th-century plague spread through Europe. Page two depicts Europe in 1346, just before the Black Death struck.