A new encyclopedia covering a millennium of women’s writing from across the globe challenges assumptions that medieval literature was dominated by men and could transform how we understand the past, ...

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The romance genre owes a major debt to the Middle Ages. That's where we get the word, the genre, and most of its tropes.

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Explore the Origins of medieval universities, their academic structure, curriculum, governance model and other important details.

Archaeologists initially believed a stone slab at the northern end of the pit to be a grave.

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, ...

Archaeologists in Germany recently revealed a secret tunnel from the Middle Ages — a tunnel hidden within a much older burial ...

Eyvind Earle (American, 1916-2000), "Concept Art" (1958), from Sleeping Beauty (Walt Disney Productions), gouache on board, 9 1/4 × 21 3/4 inches, Hilbert Collection (© Disney Enterprises, Inc., ...

Hawks offered women both real and symbolic means to express gender, power and status within a male-dominated world.

The research, published in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, analyzed 939 adult skeletons from five medieval cemeteries in Denmark, dating from approximately 1050 to 1536 AD. The findings ...