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 ...

This finding demonstrates that people with Scandinavian ancestry ... The research provides new insights into early medieval European population movements and challenges some previous assumptions ...

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

The volume features original new work on Old Norse poetry and saga, other languages and literatures of medieval north-western Europe, and the afterlife of Old Norse in modern English literature.

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 ...