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.
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
When Pernelle, the wife of Nicolas Flamel, died on 11 September 1397, she left behind a substantial estate, a complicated testament and a family dispute that would occupy the Parisian courts for months.
A Journey Through Time on Île de la Cité invites you to step into the heart of Medieval Paris
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
From bodily performance to sacred image: how the living Francis of Assisi was transformed after his death through memory, hagiography and visual culture.
In January 2025, a major programme of conservation and research began on the tomb of Otto the Great in Magdeburg Cathedral as serious deterioration had been discovered
Not only do we possess what is likely an eyewitness account from AD 973 of the death of Emperor Otto the Great, but recent studies of his remains might fit the description.
How did medieval rulership over multiple kingdoms and lordships work out? A new book explores the political, but also the practical, challenges of rulership in the fluid territorial reality of the 13th century, while floating a new concept: “transregnal”. What might this mean?
New book on the Angevin World circumvent a touchy English question. Was there ever an "Angevin Empire"?
At the head of the Bay of Arcachon, west of Bordeaux, lies the small town of Lège, nestled within a nature reserve that still preserves something of the landscape that characterised this corner of the Atlantic coast in the Middle Ages
Are the devastating wildfires of this summer the result of the shifting climate? Of human greed and stupidity? Or simply of a decline in extensive husbandry and pastoralism?
A thousand years ago, Lisbjerg, just north of Aarhus, was home to one of the king's powerful officials, Ketil the Norman. To understand his world, we must first imagine the landscape in which he lived, travelled, and exercised his authority.