A fragile 13th century manuscript fragment, hidden in plain sight as the binding of a 16th-century archival register, has been discovered in Cambridge and revealed to contain rare medieval stories of ...

And these roots – where we can identify them from the sparse medieval and Early Modern sources – express Christian beliefs and practices. The medieval roots of ‘Mothering Sunday’ There is no simple ...

More than 4,000 spectators, including many in Middle Ages garb, stepped into the faux-medieval world of Kryal Castle in Ballarat to watch jousting's answer to the cricket's Ashes rivalry.

Health and disease in the medieval world – and how our ancestors sought to cure everything from infertility to constipation – are the focus of a major new exhibition opening on 29 March 2025 at ...

At least until an archivist took another look, setting off a yearslong project to identify and then reassemble the medieval manuscript, which someone in Tudor England had taken apart and used to ...

The exhibition is staged at The Ragged School in London, and its grounding in the medieval and gothic comes from Gallacher’s interest in deconsecrated monasteries, and the proportions and practices ...

Historians describe the conflict as being "massively underrated" yet "the biggest medieval battle in England". So, what exactly happened, who were the main players, and did it change the course of ...

The medieval knights of the Middle Ages were some of the fittest and strongest warriors of their time, which comes as no surprise given that they wielded swords and sprinted in armour weighing ...

Now, the first thing to say about liberalism is that it arose in Europe, specifically in Western Christendom. This is the Europe that grew up in communion with the Bishop of Rome, at one time or ...

(AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] VILANOVA DE SAU, Spain (AP) — As Spain choked on stubborn drought last year, a reservoir north of ...

A bibliometric analysis of medieval manuscript colophons reveals that at least 1.1% of manuscripts from 800 to 1626 CE were copied by female scribes, totaling over 110,000 texts, with about 8,000 ...

Dating to the late 12th or early 13th century, the jewelry likely belonged to a medieval bishop. When it went to auction, officials expected it to fetch between roughly $19,000 and $23,000 ...