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The Decameron on Netflix isn't history, but it does embrace the spirit of the 14th-century work that inspired it.
Bill Gates is up there. So are William the Conquerer, a czar, assorted nobility and a smattering of Rockefellers, Carnegies and Vanderbilts. But even at the peak of their considerable wealth, none ...
So You Want to Dress Like a 14th-Century Medieval Lady The 14th century is an incredibly exciting time due to the emergence of tailoring, lacing, buttoning, and curved seams. By Anwen Cao ...
By the 14th Century, nobility had taken up jousting to display their strength, wealth, bravery and courage during extravagant, days-long, arena events. The sport was less violent and more regulated.
After watching a 2016 series on the 14th-century plague, viewers have flooded Purdue medievalist Dorsey Armstrong with questions about that pandemic and the current one.
The 'Last Knight'? Later in the 14th century, the chivalric ideals of heroes on horseback were increasingly at odds with the military reality in which soldiers engaged on foot.
When earlier this year one of our foremost architectural writers, Clive Aslet, published a superb biography of Edwin Lutyens, ...