Migration into England was continuous from the Romans through to the Normans and men and women moved from different places ...

The Voynich manuscript has long been shorthand for the unsolved and the unknowable, a late medieval codex filled with looping ...

A vast wooden hull resting in the silt off Copenhagen is forcing historians to rethink what a “typical” medieval merchant ...

A unique cipher that uses playing cards and dice to turn languages into glyphs produces text eerily similar to the glyphs in ...

A kidnapped prince may be the key to a kingdom in conflict. But the beast who took the boy may pose more threat than the hushed fairy tales suggest.

May your Swiss vacation include these tiny medieval towns, iconic ski resorts, and cheese-filled destinations.

Inspiration came instead from two powerful forces: one was her own status as a newly-50 empty nester, when she decided it was time to try to write fiction.

Abbreviation sculpts the appearance of the medieval page. Scribes abbreviated words astonishingly frequently, and did so in even the most ornate manuscripts, yet scholarship has treated abbreviation ...

A tapestry showing 12th-century German abbess St. Hildegard of Bingen hangs from the facade of St. Peter’s Basilica. The story of medieval medicine shares a surprising connection with St. Hildegard of ...

A study comparing the survival of medieval manuscripts and tales from regions around Europe has arrived at some stark conclusions about the preservation of the medieval European past. A vast majority ...

A journey across Sicily reveals the essence of an island shaped by outsiders, where successive waves of immigration over the centuries have created a unique cultural identity. Sicily is said to be the ...

In the often violent and gloomy medieval life, dance triumphantly emerged as a vibrant expression of joy, celebration, and social interaction. From the grand halls of noble courts to the humble ...