This paper reflects on the potential of using video games as a medium to teach medieval history. Building on feedback from students and research around the topic of using video games to teach medieval history, this paper explores how video games can be used to create counterfactual simulations and their potential use as an academic teaching tool.

This article marks the 700th anniversary of the canonisation of St Thomas de Cantilupe, bishop of Hereford (1275‐82, canonised 1320), by providing a comprehensive overview of the extant fourteenth‐century miracle collection, Oxford, Exeter College, MS 158, with reference to a contemporary copy in Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. Cod. Lat. 4015. Taken together these two manuscripts represent the second largest collection of miracles – just over 460 – to survive for any medieval English saint, and they contain a wealth of information about life and death in late thirteenth‐ to early fourteenth‐century England, Wales and Ireland. After a short precis of Thomas's life and death, the article analyses the contents of the miracle collection. It shows the number of miracles reported annually for the life cycle of the cult, the ratio of male to female pilgrims, and the types of cures that were sought at Thomas's shrine in Hereford cathedral. In doing this, light will be shed on the miraculous cult of England's ‘second St Thomas’, placing him firmly within the pantheon of medieval English saints being celebrated in 2020.

It has recently been argued that some of the miracles performed between 1287 and 1312 by St Thomas de Cantilupe, bishop of Hereford (1275–82, canonized 1320), can be seen as an imprinting of 'cultural imperialism' on the recently conquered Welsh. What this argument has not considered, however, are the miracles recorded for other English and Welsh recipients involved in various Anglo-Welsh conflicts from 1287 onwards. This article offers a revision of this assessment by considering the wider setting of the Cantilupe cult, examining the other Welsh miracle recipients and placing them in the context of Anglo-Welsh conflict in the March.

The purpose of this article is to provide transcriptions and translations of the twenty-seven miracles recorded in Oxford, Exeter College, MS 158 and Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. Cod. Lat. 4015 relating to Wales. The miracles occurred through the invocation of St Thomas de Cantilupe, bishop of Hereford (1275–82), and were recorded by the custodians at the shrine in the north transept of Hereford Cathedral between 1287 and 1312. This article examines both the Oxford and Vatican manuscripts and their significance. The collection is useful for study of the context and aftermath of King Edward I's conquest of Wales in 1283 and the subsequent Anglo-Welsh conflicts and rebellions.

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