Middle Ages

Why was food scarce in the Middle Ages? For this question, there are a whole host of answers, and they are all partly right. This is because food shortages then are like today, no single cause but a complex interaction of several factors. Some of the factors resulting in food shortages were due to technology, but most were because of human complications!

The technological problems

Middle Ages Crusades: Spain and Islam

by Patrick Stephen Baker

Crusades: Spain and Islam

While technically not called a crusade until the mid-1100’s, the reconquest of Spain by Christians,

Middle Ages How the Reformation affected Ireland

by Michael Greaney

Although the Norman invasion of Ireland left Irish civilization deprived of its main cultural support and continuity with the heroic

Middle Ages Death and burial practices of the Anglo-Saxons

by Jason Briggs

The Anglo-Saxons were fanatical in their belief that Fate, what they called the Wyrd, decided who would live and who would die. In

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