The thematic origins of the song can be traced to Angers, France, where vocalist and organist Nicole Laurenne visited the Apocalypse Tapestry. Confronted by the medieval depiction of cosmic ...

Medieval hygiene was shaped by religion, poverty, and limited resources. Bathing was often discouraged as sinful or indulgent ...

Behind the image of knights and cathedrals lay a society built on cruelty and fear. Torture was legal, common, and often ...

(RNS) — ‘The wisdom actually doesn’t see this East-West divide or conceptions of medieval (versus) modernity,’ said author ...

Brown archaeologists have uncovered new evidence of a medieval Islamic settlement documented on the island of Menorca, Spain ...

New archaeological clues are shedding light on the fate of isolated Norse colonies in Greenland that disappeared during the Middle Ages.

The feast is as much a tradition as the jousts — but this year, rising food costs are adding new pressure behind the booths.

Sometimes it takes a village to raise a window. Between 2015 and 2017, skilled masons meticulously carved and beveled arches and four-lobed flourishes for a Gothic-style stone window frame in Guédelon ...

In the 1470s, a Flemish scribe left some meticulously drafted pages of an illuminated manuscript out to dry, only to find out the next day that his cat had trod over them, leaving inky paw prints on ...

Archaeologists recently retrieved early medieval weapons from a lake in Poland — relics believed to be connected to the country's first rulers. The Museum of the First Piasts at Lednica announced the ...

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 ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Since its official launch in 2021, Medieval Dynasty has given players a glimpse of life in the middle ages without any fantasy flourishes. You don't ...