Facts and techniques
A collection of facts and figures from the medieval period. Learn techniques such as making ink, cutting quills, preparing medieval dishes from old recipes and more.
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| Coins in medieval England | Taking care of the pennies | |||
| Commission of array | Commission of Array - your country needs you | |||
| Feeding a mediaeval army | To feed a medieval army was a colossal undertaking, an army needed food in industrial quantities | |||
| Images of a medieval document | Images of the original medieval document. The script and the seal revealed | |||
| Indenture of apprenticeship | Apprenticeship was not only a way of learning a trade, it was sometimes the only way to gain citizenship of the large cities such as London. | |||
| Manners maketh man | The common cinema and TV images of feasters revelling, gnawing bones and quaffing at the table are far from the facts exposed by contemporary writings | |||
| The patron demon of scribes | I am a poure dyvel and my name ys Tytyvyllus | |||
| The story of a document - the translation | Melles has met someone who owns a medieval document. It is the genuine article written in 1446. This page contains parts of the translation. | |||
| Timekeeping | In the middle ages most "clocks" relied on gravity such as the fall of water or grains of sand to mark the passing of time | |||
| What's the difference between vellum & parchment? | Both are made from animal skins and used for the same purpose so which is which? | |||
| Who designed the illuminated book? | Many believe that the artist did the layout and design but it seems that this is not so | |||
| Writing numbers in mediaeval times | Western scribes were introduced to arabic numerals in the tenth century when the Arabs defeated what to was to become Moorish Spain | |||
