Medieval monarchs are often imagined as absolute rulers, but their real power was far more limited. Kings depended heavily on ...

A structure in southwest England that's associated with King Arthur isn't medieval as scientists had long thought. Instead, it dates back more than 5,000 years, to the Neolithic, or New Stone Age, ...

Duchess Mathilde of Burgundy is not a pleasant person to be around. She’s a wrathful, callous schemer who does not suffer fools – all traits that rulers could have in Paradox’s previous medieval ...

Syphilis existed in medieval Europe, and it caused the death of England’s King Edward IV. That’s the surprising argument of Smith College scholar Marylynn Salmon, just published in The Medieval Globe, ...

Conservator Sally Kilby and Błażej Mikuła photograph inside the folds of a medieval manuscript that was used as the cover for another book later on. - Cambridge University Library Researchers have ...

Giles Gasper receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK and the Leverhulme Trust, UK. The festive season in medieval Christendom included many traditions that are not echoed in ...

Erin Zapcic and her fellow castmates anxiously waited backstage before their first performance. The lights turned on in the arena and the crowd started to roar. Suddenly, she was no longer Erin Zapcic ...