Archaeologists working in the Languedoc region in southern France have used stable isotopes to reveal new insights into ...

Scientists excavating a site in the famous archaeological mecca of York, England, have uncovered the remnants of an ancient ...

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 Corresponding Renaissance: Letters Written by Italian Women, 1375-1650, by historian Lisa Kaborycha, includes 55 letters written by women of different social status.

According to Nature News, a team of French researchers has used medieval documents to create the oldest detailed social network ever constructed. The mathematicians and computer scientists looked ...

Karl Marx -- or the filmmaker Luis Buñuel -- would have found just as much to scoff at in 15th- and 16th-century Burgundy as in the modern world. It was then that, here as in other parts of ...

The program examines how aspects of the Middle Ages and Renaissance created, and persist into, the modern day. Students will learn to perform historically grounded analysis of art, music, literature, ...

Investigating European and global cultures during the Middle Ages and Renaissance (500-1675) has both value and relevance to contemporary American students. This interdisciplinary minor in Medieval ...

A working class woman who suffered from domestic violence. A friar who may have been the victim of a horse-and-cart hit-and-run. Those are just two examples of the remains of 314 people excavated ...

And while rich and poor in general may eventually become 'average', with 'no permanent social classes', those from the 1850s may take another 'two to four' generations to get there, he finds.