The medieval period often gets painted as a thousand years of darkness, filth, and ignorance. Popular culture loves to show us dirty peasants wallowing in mud, superstitious fools who thought the ...

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, ...

While many believed that medieval societies were racially homogeneous, research in the field has indicated that they were actually much more diverse. “This work provides really compelling ...

From lost silver coins to fossilised faeces, medieval cesspits have become some of the richest archives of everyday life in ...