From lost silver coins to fossilised faeces, medieval cesspits have become some of the richest archives of everyday life in ...

The period is good and bad, transparent and opaque, only hazily understood—but ultimately the opposite of what we want our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. So too, they often rely on a narrative of the “Anglo-Saxons” as an English “race,” a concept that has played heavily in political ...

This video examines how the Middle Ages transformed from a period once dismissed as the “Dark Ages” into a widely ...

The idea that medieval people routinely emptied chamber pots straight into the street as their primary method of waste ...

But even in the late Middle Ages, when life expectancy was considerably lower, youth was a flexible category that could expand well into the late 20s and even 30s. So what were the defining ...

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 ...

The city sits just below a Scandinavian castle complex, so the ring could have come from a royal.

Universidad CEU San Pablo provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation ES. “People have the right to live as they wish, we are no longer in the Middle Ages.” This statement, made ...

Wardship was an integral part of medieval feudalism—common wherever people had wealth to pass down, Sykes explains. It gradually became codified, evolving into “a practice shaped by law but also by ...

XO Éditions, a leading French publishing house, announces that its flagship author Mireille Calmel, a major figure in French medieval historical fiction, is about to cross the symbolic milestone of 4.

Would you love to launch your own Middle Ages band but can’t find a lutist let alone a good hurdy gurdy player? First off, congratulations on knowing what a hurdy gurdy is (man). But second and more ...