Every book was a laborious project during the Middle Ages. And according to a first-of-its-kind quantitative review, more than a few of them were penned by women. Experts estimate medieval scribes ...

Despite the upheaval in that era, Medieval Russians went about their business, and bored kids, including one named Onfim, ...

Payton’s catchphrase “Tis my jester” has become a sort of rallying cry for the KnightTok subgenre, combining historical ...

Witnessing a crime was one thing for medieval townspeople, but reporting it was another matter entirely… ...

Satire had an important social function in medieval Ireland and poet Conchobhar Ruadh Mac Con Midhe knew how to use it ...

Life in 14th-century Cambridge, England, couldn’t have been easy. As the Black Death faded, it left behind a devastated ...

What is most significant is that the particular tradition of ‘Mothering Sunday’ – as found in the UK, Ireland and some ...

A team at the University of Bergen in Norway have determined that a minimum of 1.1% of medieval manuscripts from around 800 ...

MIT professor of literature Arthur Bahr had one of the best days of his life. Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed ...

A show at the Morgan Library & Museum centers on a popular travel compendium of the medieval era, filled with exaggerations ...

However, medieval readers did not understand or perceive racial differences in the way we do today. "At that point, they ...

Considering how many games take inspiration from medieval settings, it's no surprise that some of them have pretty accurate ...