It's been studied for over a century – and we still have no idea what it says. In this video, we dive into the Voynich Manuscript, the most mysterious book of the Middle Ages. Filled with strange ...

To celebrate my daughter’s love for London and the Commonwealth, here are some of the best middle grade books set in London and the United Kingdom! If your tween loves stories packed with mystery, ...

In the short-lived arts periodical Pan, founded in Berlin in 1895, work by the medieval greats was printed side by side with illustrations by contemporary Nordic and German-speaking artists.

Throughout the Middle Ages, scholars created illuminated manuscripts called bestiaries — encyclopedias used to document various beasts’ natural history. These volumes contained lavish illustrations of ...

Leisure was a big deal in the Middle Ages. Historian Witold Rybczynski says the era holds lessons for today By Anna Kelsey-Sugg and Bec Zajac for Life Matters ...

Was the World’s Most Mysterious Manuscript from the Middle Ages A Hoax? Its indecipherable text and illustrations have stumped scholars throughout history. Here’s what we know about the Voynich ...

The Middle Ages are remembered as a time of conflict — there were wars between England and Scotland, between Muslims and Christians in Spain, and the Crusades in the Holy Land.

As a historian of the early Middle Ages, roughly 400 to 1000 C.E., I make sense of how the societies that produced vulture medicine envisioned it as one component of a much broader array of legitimate ...

Your doctor’s MD emerged from the Dark Ages, where practicing rational “human medicine” was seen as an expression of faith and maintaining one’s health a religious duty.

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Most music lovers seek to go beyond their favourite band’s greatest hits – as that’s often where the hidden gems are found. The same can be said for art from the Middle Ages. Adam S. Cohen, an ...