From lost silver coins to fossilised faeces, medieval cesspits have become some of the richest archives of everyday life in ...

Hunting played a central role in medieval life, serving both as a source of food and a display of social status. For nobles and kings, it was also an essential part of education, teaching skills such ...

In the popular imagination, “medieval” and “women” aren’t always words which go together happily. Ideas about the lives of pre-Renaissance women tend to form two hazy stereotypes: an illiterate girl ...

Games are often played as an escape, and what could be more different from the technology and screens of the modern world than the tranquility of rural medieval life? While some medieval games focus ...

Hunting was a central part of medieval life, serving both practical and symbolic purposes. While peasants hunted primarily for food, the nobility viewed hunting as a prestigious sport that ...

Despite its anatomical look, the hilt likely helped to batter an opponent's armor during combat. Nearly eight years of excavation work at a medieval fortress in Gothenburg, Sweden has yielded a number ...

A new exhibition at the British Library explores the public, private and spiritual lives of such figures as Joan of Arc, Christine de Pizan and Hildegard of Bingen Meilan Solly - Senior Associate ...

The Medieval monk was dedicated to God, and lived a life of prayer, hard work and poverty. But are the things we think we know, really true? Terry Jones travels around Europe in an attempt to reveal ...

Medieval Lives...Knights in shining armor, damsels in distress, pious monks... Nonsense. The Middle Ages were far more entertaining than that. Legendary Monty Python star and medieval scholar, Terry ...

After six years of meticulous restoration and a multi-million-pound investment, one of England’s most iconic Norman structures has re-emerged into public life. The newly reopened Norwich Castle Keep, ...