This film explores European life from 1200 to 1500, highlighting the significance of art in documenting this era. It discusses the three main institutions of medieval Europe: the Church, the Emperors, ...

A time of innovation, philosophy, and legendary works of art: the realities of the medieval period (500 to 1500 C.E.) in Europe may surprise you. Many know the years before the Renaissance and ...

This week saw more than 2,500 scholars of the Middle Ages descend on the University of Leeds (England) for the 25th annual International Medieval Congress. There, over the course of 4 days and more ...

A Welsh tradition dating to the medieval period of a landscape lost to the sea is plausible, new evidence on the evolution of the coastline of west Wales has revealed. Drawing on geological data and a ...

Detail from a manuscript made for King Lebna Dengel, circa 1520, Tädbabä Maryam Monastery, Ethiopia. Photograph by Diana Spencer, courtesy of the DEEDS Project In early 2020, just as the scope and ...

New ancient DNA analysis has shed light on how the black rat, blamed for spreading Black Death, dispersed across Europe -- revealing that the rodent colonized the continent on two occasions in the ...