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.

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

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.

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

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

What was life really like for the merchants, craftsmen and traders in London in the middle ages? Whilst the majority of people who worked in the Medieval Period were peasants, a significant community ...

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 ...

While religion in modern days may be more welcoming to LGBTQ members than in the past, a trip uptown to Manhattan’s Fort ...

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 ...

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 ...

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