Isotope analysis reveals that social status and wealth had a profound impact on diet in medieval England, showing that people from different social groups in medieval Cambridge ate markedly different ...

Medieval Christians in Denmark showed off their wealth in death by buying prestigious graves: the closer to the church, the ...

These real medieval castles will transport you to a world filled with knights and princesses, legendary lore and inspiration for your daydreams Castles conjure up images of a romantic medieval past, ...

Rare is a videogame that doesn't feature at least one sword, suit of armor, or roast chicken. Still, they're usually mixed in with bearded hermits slinging magic fireballs, which we're reliably ...

Donors are crucial to our ability to fund a wide range of programs and initiatives in medieval and renaissance studies. Gifts to the Crusades Studies Forum support scholarly lectures and the ...

A half-man, half-bird beast playing a flute. A cat’s head popping out of a snail shell. A woman barfing up a tiny demon. These are just some of the otherworldly critters that scribes in the Middle ...

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 ...

The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals. Researchers identified its more distant origin. By Jack Tamisiea Medieval scribes ...

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Shai Carmi is a paid consultant and holds stock options at MyHeritage. Harald Ringbauer does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit ...

Daniel M. Lavery cofounded and co-edited the site The Toast and is the New York Times bestselling author of Texts From Jane Eyre, The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror, Something That May Shock ...