Sometime between 975 and 1025 a.d., an unknown poet composed one of the most famous, most influential poems in English history: Beowulf. … [Read more...]
TIP Tries: Dominion
Dominion Rio Grande Games, $44.95 Ages 13+ Imagine you're a monarch. Imagine that you want to expand your territory and fill it with better things—more commerce, bigger castles, stronger armies. It's the (admittedly unjust) spirit that imbued medieval times, and it's the … [Read more...]
TIPsters Who Live in Medieval Times–Sometimes
One way to see what life was like the medieval era is to visit it—or at least a recreation of it. That's what thousands of people do every year at renaissance fairs and festivals across the country. We spoke to some TIPsters who participate in those events or something similar … [Read more...]
Life in Medieval Times
Medieval times. The Dark Ages. Life after the fall of Rome and before the Renaissance of art and reason. If you believe the pop culture images of that era, Europe was full of peasants and kings, princesses and knights in shining armor who rode the realms protecting the weak. … [Read more...]