The Middle Ages sometimes called the Medieval Period lasted from the 5th to the ... there were a great many things that happened during this time. With no central authority to maintain order ...

Crews working on the Varberg Tunnel railway project in Sweden recently uncovered six shipwrecks near the historic city. The ...

look to the Middle Ages, seizing on glorious, golden artifacts, big castles and cathedrals to offer a simplification of racially pure patriarchal militarism. The period is good and bad ...

Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a period of massive ... by English princes of Wales from the time of Edward I. The long view of the period from 1300 to 1485 suggests climate ...

All right, so this is an article about extremely disturbing execution methods of the Middle Ages, a period that lasted in ... of the violence of our own time? Does learning about archaic torture ...

One of the most important surviving medieval manuscripts written in Irish goes on public display after a two-year long ...

Claims that man-made pollution is causing "unprecedented" global warming have been seriously undermined by new research which shows that the Earth was warmer during the Middle Ages. From the ...

In fact, the Middle Ages subscribed heartily to the adage “cleanliness is next to godliness.” Thinkers of the period considered physical beauty to represent spiritual purity, and they looked ...