At the Met Cloisters in Manhattan, paintings, statuettes and other objects demonstrate that human desire transcends time and ...

The Middle Ages, usually dated from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, were a period of striking contrasts. Castles rose ...

Welcome to the Middle Ages, where laws were crazier than a knight jousting with a breadstick. The craziest part is that some ...

How did people live and die during the harshest months of the year? How did they stay warm? What did they eat? How did they ...

Experts think that someone may have buried the copper cauldron full of coins and jewelry to keep it safe during a tumultuous ...

Some ‘Hairy’ Medieval Books Were Covered in Sealskin, and Researchers Don’t Know Exactly Why. Historians were surprised when analyses revealed Catholic monks used pinniped h ...

One thinks of the Middle Ages as a time when peasants rarely moved more than a few miles from their huts or monks from their monasteries—when people generally, other than perhaps the well-to-do, were ...

The late 12th century was a turbulent period for medieval Sweden. Swedish forces were actively attempting to colonize regions of Finland, creating widespread instability and conflict. Lin Annerbäck, ...

Located in the heart of the Latin Quarter, the Musée de Cluny is housed in the 13th-century Hôtel des Abbés de Cluny, and is ...

During the Middle Ages, taxation was considered to be appropriate only as an extreme measure in times of emergency, and as a ...

Retrieving the concepts, writes Tobias Winright, "will raise attention to, and accountability for, indiscriminate and ...

On sunny Friday afternoons at Northwestern, foam swords clash against shields and other weapons as fighters duel each other ...