Plans have been submitted for an archaeological excavation on the site of a proposed relief road after medieval features were ...

Welcume, loveli folke! Heere is thyn wey to dresse as a ladye reverant and faire.

Archaeologists are to excavate what they believe to be a rare example of a medieval crannog settlement in the Highlands. Crannogs were built on artificial islands made of stone or timber in lochs. The ...

Surgery was not a widespread practice in the medieval period. While it gained some traction in the 1300s, surgery was limited to southern France and northern Italy. Even there, surgery was dangerous ...

The Medieval era was notoriously bleak and dark, and while some games gloss over those more brutal aspects, these are not ...

UofL Assistant Professor of Anthropology Kathryn Marklein co-authored a study that contradicts past literature about the ...

Sit on a throne and dictate the lives of hundreds, thousands, or even millions in these games that let you manage a medieval ...

For some time, many of these looked to the medieval period as a moment of chivalry and knightly quest. More recently, however, popular culture set in the Middle Ages has leaned into the gritty and ...

In medieval England it was only priests and churchmen who could read. However, non-churchmen were able to get around this by learning a verse from the Bible, which they would recite. This became ...

Sometimes it may appear that crime is increasing, but the apparent increase might actually be related to other factors: Historical research suggests that the medieval period was a particularly ...

In spite of the general easygoing attitude of the medieval period toward hygiene, table manners were not born in a vacuum. In Italy, the culture that would give rise to Catherine’s crusade for ...