Medieval Lives
Historian and author Helen Castor explores how people in the Middle Ages handled life's most fundamental moments of transition: birth, marriage and death.
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Historian and author Helen Castor explores how people in the Middle Ages handled life's most fundamental moments of transition: birth, marriage and death.
Historian Helen Castor reveals how the moment of labour and birth was a very dangerous time for a medieval woman.
Helen Castor reveals how the Catholic Church tried to control marriage from the 12th century onwards.
Helen Castor reveals how being remembered after death shaped not only worship in the Middle Ages, but the very buildings...