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, ...

Novels about female Muslims once relied on two major character tropes: the pious, veiled woman with ironclad ethical mores ...

Isotope analysis reveals that social status and wealth had a profound impact on diet in medieval England, showing that people from different social groups in medieval Cambridge ate markedly different ...

This spectacular work of medieval art imagines Christ's side as a vulva—and is now on view at the Met Cloisters, ...

The researchers found that many locals have strong genetic ties to Bronze Age and Classical-era Greeks. While most of southeastern Europe saw major population changes in the Medieval period, the ...

There is a new trend of young women flocking to see knightly performers at Medieval Times events, and multiple psychologists offered their explanations why.

A Chinese king’s infatuation with a woman was seen as the reason that a golden age collapsed. Evidence suggests climate change and internal strife played bigger roles.

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.

Marriage in the Middle Ages was less about romance and more about survival, status, and family alliances. Many unions were arranged to strengthen economic ties or secure land and inheritance. The ...

Archaeologists in Norway have uncovered a stunning medieval gold ring featuring a rare blue gemstone, providing a remarkable ...

Most noble and illustrious readers, I am about to introduce you to the finest, most verbose, most grotesque, most ...

The delicate gold ring was made sometime in the Middle Ages and may have belonged to a high-status woman. An archaeologist excavating a medieval town in southern Norway had an "out-of-body experience" ...