Shop the Middle Ages

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  Linda Bernstein

  

  WATCH: These musicians recreated lost medieval music that hasn't been heard for 1,000 years

  Raw Story - Bethania Palma Markus

  A Cambridge researcher and world-class medieval music performers are teaming up to recreate songs that haven't been heard in 1,000 years, the …

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  Linda Bernstein

  

  This charming Medieval Tube map shows stations with the names of ancient towns

  The Telegraph - Helena Horton

  The Londonist has created this great Medieval Tube map, which shows what the stations would have been called in times of old. Instead of Oxford Circus, Kings Cross St Pancras or Victoria, you'd find in their place small towns and hamlets. It was a time where no one worried about train delays and …

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  Linda Bernstein

  

  Everything We Know About Platforms We Learned from Medieval France

  Harvard Business Review - Ray Fisman and Tim Sullivan

  Raise a glass of bubbly to the count of Champagne.

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  Linda Bernstein

  

  The hospital experience in medieval England

  historyextra.com - Emma Mason

  In the Middle Ages there were very broadly four types of hospital: for lepers; for poor (and sick) pilgrims; for the poor and infirm; and almshouses …

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  Linda Bernstein

  

  Stake to the heart: Count Dracula’s medieval castle is NOT for sale

  express.co.uk - DAVID BARNETT

  THE owners of the Transylvanian castle that was the inspiration for the forbidding home of Count Dracula have hammered a stake into the heart of …

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  Linda Bernstein

  

  How to build a medieval castle: 9 top tips

  historyextra.com - Elinor Evans

  It is crucial that you build your castle at a prominent site in a position of strategic importance Castles were commonly erected on naturally …