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Trees held deep meaning in medieval life, appearing in religion, mythology, literature, political gatherings and even the food served at wealthy tables.

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A lunar eclipse allowed two medieval scholars working 1,500 kilometres apart to calculate the longitude difference between Baghdad and Khwarezm.

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Medieval accounts may help identify Castle Hill in Devon as the long-lost site of the Battle of Cynuit, where Anglo-Saxon forces defeated a Viking army in 878.

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Giovanni Boccaccio uses the tale of the rise and fall of King Arthur to teach the fickleness of fortune and the peril of pridefulness. Christopher Berard and Morris Tichenor provide a new translation of this once influential but now overlooked medieval retelling of Arthur’s downfall.

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A study of Japan’s early female emperors challenges the idea that they served merely as temporary rulers preserving the throne for male heirs.

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