A medieval person would find modern life deeply unsettling rather than impressive. Personal freedom, gender equality, and ...

In the Middle Ages, color was never a personal choice. It signaled status, wealth, profession, loyalty, and even moral ...

A stained-glass window depicting Empress Matilda's voyage from England to Normandy Andreas F. Borchert via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 In three decades of teaching medieval European history, ...

Those inclined to see our era as a feminist golden age will find a timely corrective in “The Once and Future Sex,” medieval historian Eleanor Janega’s accessible and entertaining study of how women ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. In the Halloween season, American culture briefly participates in an ancient ...

Medieval society was divided into three main groups: the nobility, the clergy, and the peasantry. The peasants were protected by local lords (nobles), who defended them from raiders and highway ...

The discovery was made underneath a famous national park. Archaeologists found medieval tunnels with a sophisticated hydraulic system beneath a famous national park. The system powered paddle wheels ...

The remains of numerous individuals unearthed on the former site of the Hospital of St. John the Evangelist, taken during the 2010 excavation on the site of the Divinity School building, St John’s ...

Medieval society needed workers, but not every role earned dignity. Certain jobs were unavoidable, but still left people socially shunned and physically stained. Others placed people in danger or left ...

The combination of filigree and granulation techniques arrived in Norway during the early Middle Ages from the Byzantine Empire, partly via Carolingian goldsmithing traditions. The Carolingian period, ...