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.
Medieval Lives
E1
A Good Birth
Expires on Dec 30
Historian Helen Castor reveals how the moment of labour and birth was a very dangerous time for a medieval woman.
Medieval Lives
E2
A Good Marriage
Expires on Dec 30
Helen Castor reveals how the Catholic Church tried to control marriage from the 12th century onwards.
Medieval Lives
E3
A Good Death
Expires on Dec 30
Helen Castor reveals how being remembered after death shaped not only worship in the Middle Ages, but the very buildings...