Among the most popular books of the time, bestiaries were filled with real and mythical animals and their lore, the protagonists of intriguing stories symbolizing human virtues and faults.

Forget your modern notions of privacy, sleeping in the Middle Ages was a shared experience. From family cottages to inns with ...

An excavation at Oxford University has yielded ancient book clasps, medieval pens and imported fish bones, offering ...

From burning castles to swords and magic and velvet gowns, medievalism has taken over 21st century pop culture.

The show features more than 50 paintings, manuscripts, textiles and other artworks created in Western Europe between the 13th ...

Medieval knights are one of those things where the fiction outweighs the facts. Knights served as a part of the […] ...

Let's go back to the Middle Ages to look at some dishes people still enjoy today. Find out if one of your favorite meals is ...

When you hear it said that “Modern steel is disposable by design”, your ears perk up, as you just caught the unmistakable ...

This year at Yale, two new literature classes will push the boundaries — cultural, linguistic, and geographic — of what we talk about when we talk about medieval literature. The aims of the classes ...

A new exhibition at The Met Cloisters makes the case that gender and sexual fluidity were an essential part of Medieval religious art.

Cats had a bad reputation in the middle ages. Their presumed links with paganism and witchcraft meant they were often treated with suspicion. But despite their association with the supernatural, ...

On sunny Friday afternoons at Northwestern, foam swords clash against shields and other weapons as fighters duel each other on Deering Meadow. The fighters are part of the Belegarth Medieval Combat ...