More than 500 years ago, while a medieval scribe was carefully copying a religious manuscript by hand, a cat walked across the pages while the ink was still ...

The romance genre owes a major debt to the Middle Ages. That's where we get the word, the genre, and most of its tropes.

And in Europe, the medieval era was particularly disease-ridden. But what happened when money and social stigma collided? To ...

An armoured knight on a lumbering steed; toiling serfs, tied to the lands of their lord, cloistered monks and nuns, lost in prayer. And don’t forget the scenery: high-walled castles, great gothic ...

While religion in modern days may be more welcoming to LGBTQ members than in the past, a trip uptown to Manhattan’s Fort ...

This year at Yale, two new literature classes will push the boundaries — cultural, linguistic, and geographic — of what we talk about when we talk about medieval literature. The aims of the classes ...

A long-standing myth about medieval history is that the Middle Ages were intellectually dark. Science supposedly took a hiatus between the demise of Rome and the rise of Copernican astronomy and ...

Explore the Origins of medieval universities, their academic structure, curriculum, governance model and other important details.

The research, published in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, analyzed 939 adult skeletons from five medieval cemeteries in Denmark, dating from approximately 1050 to 1536 AD. The findings ...