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 medieval genre has always been the most fun and fulfilling when it comes to a good video game. Maybe it’s something to do ...

Medieval England was a dangerous place. Murder rates are estimated to have been between 20 to 50 times higher than today, ...

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 ...

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

as well as the unique ways liturgical manuscripts can inform our understanding of medieval life and thought. In medieval England, women in labor wrapped birth girdles around their abdomens to protect ...

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 ...

This module focuses on Japan’s medieval period, including the Kamakura (1185-1333), the Muromachi (1336-1573), and the Momoyama (1573-1603) shogunates. Photograph ...

Stained Glass Panel with Aconite Leaves, ca. 1275-1300, Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, gift of Ella Brummer in memory of her husband, Ernest Brummer, 1977.89. Public domain. Studies in ...