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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Sparta had a highly unusual system of government. Two kings ruled the city, but a 28-member 'council of elders' limited their powers. These men were recruited from the highest social class, the ...

The research, published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences by lead author Dr. Jane Holmstrom and colleagues, uncovered nuanced differences in diet among social classes based on the ...