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

The idea that medieval people routinely emptied chamber pots straight into the street as their primary method of waste ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. So too, they often rely on a narrative of the “Anglo-Saxons” as an English “race,” a concept that has played heavily in political ...

This video examines how the Middle Ages transformed from a period once dismissed as the “Dark Ages” into a widely romanticized era in modern culture. The discussion explores how social changes during ...

There has never been a singular Christian perspective on how religion, power and politics ought to relate to each other – not ...

But even in the late Middle Ages, when life expectancy was considerably lower, youth was a flexible category that could expand well into the late 20s and even 30s. So what were the defining ...

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 ...

For most people in the Middle Ages, food was about survival rather than enjoyment. The majority of the population lived as peasants working the land, relying on simple meals made from whatever crops ...

The city sits just below a Scandinavian castle complex, so the ring could have come from a royal.

XO Éditions, a leading French publishing house, announces that its flagship author Mireille Calmel, a major figure in French medieval historical fiction, is about to cross the symbolic milestone of 4.

Eyvind Earle (American, 1916-2000), "Concept Art" (1958), from Sleeping Beauty (Walt Disney Productions), gouache on board, 9 1/4 × 21 3/4 inches, Hilbert Collection (© Disney Enterprises, Inc., ...