BBC History Magazine

LIFE IN THE FASTER LANE

here are many ways in which we in the modern world are guilty of underestimating the rapid pace of change in the Middle Ages. One of them is in the time it took people to traverse the county. Given the lack of technological advancement, it’s easy to assume that it took just as long to get from A to B at the end of the era as

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