Ela Fitzpayne was a powerful aristocrat who offended the Archbishop of Canterbury and was ordered to do a "walk of shame." ...

In the end, the only charge that ever stuck in the murder case was an indictment against one of the family’s former servants.

The University of Cambridge project reveals sky-high homicide rates in medieval London, York and Oxford and shows that male ...

Scientists have extracted genetic information from 400 medieval burials that date between the eighth and eighteenth centuries ...

A medieval document held in the collection of Göttingen University's Faculty of Humanities has been identified as a forgery ...

A “copy” of the Magna Carta, a medieval document that is said to be one of the world's most valuable documents, owned by Harvard Law School, is found to be a rare original. The document ...

In Denmark, the Icelander and archivist Árni Magnússon (1663-1730) was tasked with collecting medieval documents from both Iceland and the rest of the Nordic countries. At this time, Iceland was ...

It is one of just seven such documents from that date still in existence. “I never in all my life expected to discover a Magna Carta,” said David Carpenter, a professor of medieval history at ...

Tucked among a trove of medieval documents was Harvard Law School Manuscript 172, identified as a copy of the Magna Carta purchased in 1946 for $27.50, according to the library’s accession register.

So, what will happen to the document now? Both academics are due to visit Harvard in June for a celebration to mark the discovery of the medieval document. After that, Carpenter believes that it ...