weather
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Did they believe in portents? Severe weather and other extreme natural phenomena in Walsingham’s Chronica Maiora and other late-medieval monastic chronicles
Dr Simon Payling, of our Commons 1461-1504 section, explores the theme of extreme weather in medieval chronicles. It is a familiar…
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Beast from the East or Song of Solomon? The Coronation of King Henry V, 9 April 1413
While many coronations have been unlucky weather-wise, it is Henry V’s coronation that has gone down in history for its…