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William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the River Somme to begin the invasion of England
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Both Spain and Italy claim to be the first to manufacture paper in Europe. Muslim conquest of Spain brought paper making to Europe.
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Magna Carta is a charter agreed by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215.
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The Crusades were predominantly a series of religious wars undertaken by the Latin Church between the 11th and 15th centuries
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a disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis that circulates among wild rodents where they live in great numbers and density.
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Robin Hood became a popular folk figure in the late-medieval period
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Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales, between 1387 and 1400. It is the story of a group of thirty people who travel as pilgrims to Canterbury. The pilgrims, who come from all layers of society, tell stories to each other to kill time while they travel to Canterbury.
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series of wars for control of the throne of England. They were fought between supporters of two rival branches of the royal House of Plantagenet, those of Lancaster and York.
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Le Morte d'Arthur is a reworking of traditional tales by Sir Thomas Malory about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table.
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Henry won the throne when his forces defeated King Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field, the culmination of the Wars of the Roses. Henry was the last king of England to win his throne on the field of battle
