A newly analyzed medieval manuscript suggests that sailors from the same region as Christopher Columbus may have known about ...

War in medieval times was about the control of land. Garrisons of knights and other soldiers who lived in castles controlled the land around their stone fortresses. To conquer a territory ...

This was a way of William demonstrating his power over England and trying to secure his land. There was a belief in medieval England that you would stay at the society level you were born into.