What was the physical world in which Parisians lived in the late Middle Ages? In a sense, Paris was still embedded in an ancient riverine landscape, despite being the only major metropolis in the region, perhaps numbering more than 200,000 inhabitants.
From ancient Greek offerings to medieval Christian commemorations, the ritual foods of southern Italy reveal a remarkable relationship between the remembrance of the dead
How did a wealthy Parisian property investor and benefactor become one of the most famous alchemists in history? A new exhibition at the Musée de Cluny in Paris explores this extraordinary transformation of Nicolas Flamel
Nicolas Flamel, was a very wealthy Parisian slumlord making his living from renting out rooms and apartments in houses build on the right side of the Seine in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Upon his death, he donated his entire wealth to churches and hospitals to atone for his sins.
Built in Paris in 1407, the surviving house of the Parisian Bourgeois, Nicolas Flamel, offers an unusual glimpse into medieval housing, charitable foundations and the religious obligations of working people.
A house with two street entrances, writing stalls against a church wall and a sculpted portal reveal how the Parisian couple, Nicolas Flamel and Pernelle, connected domestic life, work and religious patronage in the 14th century
Medieval Paris was not simply a royal capital, a university town or a city of magnificent churches. It was also a crowded and constantly changing urban landscape
The week the opening of the exhibition on Nicolas Flamel at Musee de Cluny in Paris is the main event. However, a major exhibition at Tewkesbury, a major Norman building, explores how the social consequences of conquest unfolded following Hastings.
What did Paris sound like in the lifetime of Nicolas Flamel (c. 1330–1418)? As part of its exhibition Nicolas Flamel, alchimiste de papier, the Musée de Cluny invites visitors to explore the musical world of this wealthy Parisian bourgeois
A remarkable collection of post-mortem inventories reveals how the wealthy canons of Notre-Dame lived, worked and entertained in late medieval Paris.
What did it mean to be an escripvain (or escrivain) in medieval France? Was such a person a professional copyist, a clerk, a secretary, a notary or an author? And how did the meaning of the term change as manuscript production developed into an increasingly specialised commercial enterprise during the later Middle Ages?
How did a small Islamic principality on the eastern coast of Spain - Islamic Denia - become a major maritime power in the eleventh-century Mediterranean? A new study explores how warfare, commerce, slavery and cultural connections helped forge a medieval state
How did a collection of marshy islands on the northern Adriatic coast become one of medieval Europe's most remarkable cities? A new study challenges the familiar story of Venice's origins
Who actually paid for, organised and built England's late medieval parish churches? New book enters the discussion with a new contribution focusing on the distinct new design
Who were Chaucer’s thirty-three pilgrims, and why were they heading to Canterbury? What do they and their tales tell us about medieval England as a place, and about the daily lives of its people? New book tells the story
This Week is all about The Avars and their Genes, when the The Natural History Museum Vienna opens the special exhibition GENEchangers, based on the early medieval cemeteries of Leobersdorf and Mödling near Vienna.