Lamplighter Jan Tater wears a historical uniform as he lights a gas lamp on Charles Bridge in Prague on Dec. 16. (Martin Divisek/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) Perspective by ...
Would you love to launch your own Middle Ages band but can’t find a lutist let alone a good hurdy gurdy player? First off, congratulations on knowing what a hurdy gurdy is (man). But second and more ...
The Violence Research Centre at Cambridge University (UK) just unveiled a new data-visualization project that maps murders in medieval London. Across a city of about 80,000 people at the time, the map ...
The European Middle Ages seem to be having a moment. Although it’s true that, essentially since the time they ended, the period has been used to justify the shape of an author’s contemporary world, ...
This week saw more than 2,500 scholars of the Middle Ages descend on the University of Leeds (England) for the 25th annual International Medieval Congress. There, over the course of 4 days and more ...
Detail from a 10th century religious book is seen displayed at the library at Salisbury Cathedral in England. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images) Most Americans get their ideas about the Middle Ages from ...
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Up to 20,000 coins from Early Middle Ages discovered by man digging for worms near Stockholm
A man went digging for worms outside Stockholm and made the discovery of a lifetime: a hoard of up to 20,000 silver coins intermingled with pearls, pendants and silver rings. The hoard dates to the ...
A longstanding myth holds that people in medieval Christian Europe didn’t bathe. In fact, the Middle Ages subscribed heartily to the adage “cleanliness is next to godliness.” Thinkers of the period ...
Though films and TV series about the Middle Ages do not always attract the same level of love and critical praise as those set in other periods of history, there are still a number of notable films ...
Last week, an early medieval burial site—since characterized as one of the most significant ever excavated in the UK—was discovered. Buried alongside its inhabitant from the Middle Ages was an ...
YAKIMA, Wash. -- It’s been 10 years since The Zone closed, ending its decade-long run as the club for kids who couldn’t get into bars, and Yakima hasn’t had a dedicated all-ages music venue since. Not ...
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