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Mapmaker Dr Adomas Klimantas reveals how he created a detailed map of the Crusader States in the 12th-century.


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Explore 10 medieval maps of Britain—from early mappae mundi and Ptolemaic charts to portolans, the Gough Map, and the Catalan Atlas—revealing how England, Scotland and Wales were drawn in the Middle Ages.


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Abū Nuwās is widely regarded as one of the great poets of the Middle Ages. This book brings together more than a hundred poems attributed to him—each with an English translation—focused on hunting.


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Medieval physicians made striking discoveries about sleep—describing sleep paralysis, sleep hygiene, and even sleep apnoea centuries before modern sleep medicine.


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A single medieval manuscript in the British Library contains the only surviving copies of several of the most important Middle English texts. This book explores how those works and the manuscript that preserves them are inseparable.


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