Polygamy in the Middle Ages wasn’t about romance — it was about power, survival, and hierarchy. While officially condemned, ...

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 ...

Far from living in constant filth, medieval people developed routines, regulations and even public infrastructure to manage ...

While in theory, a pope couldn’t be removed during the Middle Ages, late medieval Europe still found ways to challenge, ...

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 ...

An ‘exceptionally well-preserved’ notebook pulled from a late Middle Ages latrine was found alongside silk scraps believed to ...

The home of the Mona Lisa has a history that’s almost 1000 years long Cool Finds A archaeological excavation in Burghead Fort has uncovered a longhouse from the Picts, a late Iron Age and early ...

The researchers in Ireland looked at their computer screen, marveling at a medieval book tracked down in a Roman library.