A study provides new insights into the many overlooked women scribes who wrote manuscripts in the Middle Ages.

The local chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism encourages members to study the Middle Ages, practice medieval arts ...

The fair has a jewel of a 16th-century illuminated manuscript, and other museum-quality items, but fewer standouts over all.

Waking up to texts from past lives would likely involve judgmental messages, ranging from an ancient philosopher's disdain ...

A show in Chantilly will reveal the ‘Mona Lisa’ of illuminated manuscripts — a rarely exhibited 15th-century prayer book ...

The elite women of ancient Greece and Rome regularly used cosmetics, a custom that was adopted from the ancient Egyptians.

The Great Peasants’ War was premodern Europe’s largest popular rising. Early stirrings in the southwestern corner of what is now Germany in the summer of 1524 grew to affect vast parts of the Holy ...

Courir de Mardi Gras is rooted in French medieval history and is comprised ... Common citizens and peasants, some of which who would later become Acadians and Cajuns, were not allowed to attend ...

Well-known traditions of New Orleans Mardi Gras are a version of historic celebrations, but true Cajun tradition is found in ...

Medieval” has come to mean backward, uninformed, and brutal, particularly when looking at the lives of women. This does not ...