Most people in medieval society lived in villages, there were few large towns. The majority of people were peasants, who worked on the land. There were a range of jobs and trades in towns and ...

The series of beautiful sacramentaries made at Saint-Amand in the later ninth century offer us unique insight into an early medieval scriptorium at work. These manuscripts contain principally the ...

Life in 14th-century Cambridge, England, couldn’t have been easy. As the Black Death faded, it left behind a devastated ...

Medieval England was a dangerous place. Murder rates are estimated to have been between 20 to 50 times higher than today, meaning violent deaths were a regular occurrence. But in a world without ...

The series of beautiful sacramentaries made at Saint-Amand in the later ninth century offer us unique insight into an early medieval scriptorium at work. These manuscripts contain principally the ...

Set in 1350, this medieval drama unfolds through a number of village characters telling their stories of life in the middle ages. We meet the baker, the herbalist, the landless labourer, the medicus ...

MIT professor of literature Arthur Bahr had one of the best days of his life. Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed ...

Professor Richard Holmes, a British military historian featured in the NOVA film "Medieval Siege," talks here about everyday life in a medieval English castle, giving a sense of how lords and ...

Archaeologists are set to begin an underwater excavation of a rare medieval crannog in Loch Achilty later this year. The ...