From peach pit salves to lizard shampoos, ancient remedies reveal that medieval folks were surprisingly savvy about wellness, and oddly in sync with today’s trends.

There are many things that we associate with the medieval period, but generally, effective health and hygiene hacks aren’t ...

The Middle Ages had some rather surprising customs. Archery, for example, was compulsory at one point, and it was even ...

Scholars say handwriting errors in a 900-year-old document changes the understanding of "The Song of Wade", a lost English poem.

Looking for alternative wellness hacks? Current social media trends strangely resemble medieval cures.

More broadly, the sermon speaks of humility in an unusual fashion, comparing powerful, plundering men to wolves and deceitful ...

After baffling scholars for over a century, Cambridge researchers have reinterpreted the long-lost Song of Wade, revealing it ...

Medieval medicine is undergoing a reputation makeover. New research reveals that far from being stuck in superstition, early Europeans actively explored healing practices based on nature, observation, ...

It turns out the Dark Ages weren't all that dark! According to new research, medieval medicine was way more sophisticated ...

Researchers now say that medieval medicine was actually 'way more sophisticated' than you might think. Would you be brave ...

Falconry, fashion and fighting with swords took thousands of visitors to the University of Leeds back to the Middle Ages.This year's largest academic ...