Medieval travel was not an adventure — it was a dangerous gamble against weather, thieves, forests, disease, exhaustion, and ...

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 ...

Far from living in constant filth, medieval people developed routines, regulations and even public infrastructure to manage ...

We’ve Been Getting it All Wrong Medieval Europe (roughly 500–1500 CE) is often misunderstood—thanks in part to movies, myths, ...

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 ...

Researchers in Dublin have uncovered the oldest surviving English poem, hiding in a medieval book in a Roman library.

An ‘exceptionally well-preserved’ notebook pulled from a late Middle Ages latrine was found alongside silk scraps believed to ...

Without good dental care, teeth tend to suffer. An abundance of archaeological evidence has shown that poor oral health was common throughout history. And unsurprisingly, there have been many attempts ...

Would you love to launch your own Middle Ages band but can’t find a lutist let alone a good hurdy gurdy player? First off, congratulations on knowing what a hurdy gurdy is (man). But second and more ...