You know what they say: the longer you stick around somewhere, no matter if it seems to have come straight out of a fairytale ...

Europe is home to countless medieval locations. From the tidal island of Mont Saint-Michel, to the spooky castles of Transylvania, Europe's Middle Ages provided some of the world's most amazing places ...

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

Yearning princesses locked away in castles, heroic knights, hawkish Vikings — fragments of medieval European stories have permeated nearly every aspect of contemporary culture, from Taylor Swift songs ...

Usually, when people hear the term “illuminated manuscript,” they think of enormous, leather-bound books, produced painstakingly by the hands of medieval European monks, and filled to the brim with ...

Queen Mary University of London provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. My book Cities of Strangers: Making Lives in Medieval Europe is about the ways newcomers were received and accepted ...

Art and Nature in the Middle Ages On View December 4, 2016 à March 19, 2017 at the Dallas Museum of Art Aquamanile (water jug) in the shape of a unicorn Workshop of the Flammschweiflšwen, Nuremberg, ...

Modern European cities and medieval cities share a population-density-to-area relationship, a new paper concludes – the latest research to find regularities in human settlement patterns across space ...

Each May, some 3,000 people descend on Kalamazoo, Mich., for the International Congress on Medieval Studies, which brings together academics and enthusiasts for four days of scholarly panels, ...

Christians in medieval Europe appear to have inadvertently influenced the evolution of modern chickens to boost traits relating to their egg-laying abilities and how friendly they are. In a new study ...