A new kind of kingdom needed a new kind of queen. The millennium-old and largely forgotten Mathilda of Flanders is being re-introduced as the groundbreaking ruler she was, thanks to Laura Gathagan, ...

Medieval monarchs are often imagined as absolute rulers, but their real power was far more limited. Kings depended heavily on ...

Through this three part series Art Historian Dr Janina Ramirez tells the story of the Medieval monarchy as preserved through stunning illuminated manuscripts from the British Library's Royal ...

From about 1150 onwards the monarchy began to play a much larger part in the management of the justice system in England. Of course, it would be several centuries before the legal system that we know ...

Simon & Schuster. 240 pp. $35 At the dawn of the 17th century -- which would witness not merely a civil war but a republican interregnum, a royal Restoration and a Glorious Revolution to boot -- the ...

LONDON (AP) — In his first visit to Britain’s Parliament as monarch, King Charles III spoke of feeling the “weight of history which surrounds us” and referenced his “medieval predecessors” as he ...