Ebook: Medieval Secrets & Scandals

The Middle Ages, or medieval period, spans the centuries from the 400s to the 1500s. In Britain, visible legacies are castles and cathedrals, but remembered from history and legends are kings and queens, and fabled heroes such as Robin Hood. Power lay with the Court and the Church, but rumour and gossip rippled around water-well and market place, for that was how news spread. Around the kings, whose powers were as many as their human frailties, murder, mischief and muck-raking simmered. Here are whispers of old passions and quarrels: murderous kings and queens, scheming lords and ladies, brutal barons and worldly clerics, witchcraft and magic. Many secrets and scandals were concealed behind the rich tapestries of the medieval pageant.