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

And in Europe, the medieval era was particularly disease-ridden. But what happened when money and social stigma collided? To ...

In 1381, crushing poll taxes and corruption sparked England’s largest medieval uprising. Led by commoners like Wat Tyler and ...

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.

Criminal life in the Middle Ages was dangerous, unpredictable, and often short. Justice systems varied by region but commonly relied on public punishment to deter crime. Minor offenses could result in ...

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

"My Name is Oswald," a new song cycle telling the stories of St Oswald of Northumbria, premiered in a performance in the King ...

The medieval tunnel was dug into loess and cut directly through a trapezoidal ditch associated with the Baalberge culture (4th millennium BC), a landscape already reused for burials in later ...

More than 500 years ago, while a medieval scribe was carefully copying a religious manuscript by hand, a cat walked across the pages while the ink was still ...

A rare manuscript illustration casts Blackness not as a mirror of sin, but the ground from which love itself might take shape.

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 ...

Medieval tunnel discovered in Germany were likely used for secret cult rituals - Medieval shaft was found during excavation of a Stone Age burial ...