In medieval society, most people lived in villages ... Villeins worked on strips of land, spread out in different fields across the village. Life could be hard; if crops failed to produce enough ...

So this English village wasn't taking ... in northern and western Europe in the Medieval period. It was thought that people who committed evil deeds in life took some of that ill-will with them ...

Land, village life and petty crime: the workings of the medieval legal system Manor court records are a good mirror into the realities of life in rural England, believes Dr Spike Gibbs. He has been ...

Travelling to England? These articles should interest you: In the heart of rural Wiltshire, lies the remarkably preserved ...

Set in 1350, this medieval drama unfolds through a number of village characters telling their stories of life in the middle ages. We meet the baker, the herbalist, the landless labourer, the medicus ...