The MET Cloisters will be opening a new exhibition later this autumn entitled Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages.

The film discusses the art of the Middle Ages, emphasizing its role in expressing the mystical faith of the time. It highlights the importance of medieval cathedrals, particularly in France, and ...

The Middle Ages, like all historical epochs – like our own – was a time of light and shadow. A time, in short, which, if we approach it without prejudice, still has many lessons to offer us.

The fantastical imagery that many of us consider “medieval” today has been invented, at least in part, in the centuries since. While some legends are rooted in the period, like the stories of ...

Turmoil, crisis and the creation of a state, from Magna Carta to the horrors of the Black Death. Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a period of massive social change, burgeoning ...

Indeed, it is this 20th-century French historian and archivist whose prolific work has done the most to dispel the particularly tenacious myths and prejudices of our time with regard to the Middle ...

Doctors in the Middle Ages did not have access to the advanced knowledge that we do. So what did they know? Find out in this 3rd level BBC Bitesize article.

Mr Mortimer sets out to show that the medieval period, from 1000 to 1600, is profoundly misunderstood.It was not a backward and unchanging time marked by violence, ignorance and superstition ...