Last year, archaeologists were conducting excavations at a gravesite in Croatia when they uncovered evidence of a vampire ...

For centuries, the Catholic Church straddled the world of medieval Europe. Every king, queen, knight, serf and soldier lived and died within the embrace of the Catholic faith. The church was not ...

The Black Death (1347-51) devastated European society. Writing four decades after the event, the English monk and chronicler, Thomas Walsingham, remarked that “so much wretchedness followed ...

Historian Diana Darke argues in “Islamesque” that Europe’s monuments owe a vast debt to Muslim craftsmen and designers.

In medieval and early modern Europe, the “feeling heart”—the heart as the site ... The essays investigate the nature of those phenomena and how people of these periods experienced them and how they ...

By making some of the matter of historical generalization available to students, the series enlivens efforts to understand what medieval people thought and felt as they moved through the major ...