The medieval period often gets painted as a thousand years of darkness, filth, and ignorance. Popular culture loves to show us dirty peasants wallowing in mud, superstitious fools who thought the ...

Professor of English and Medieval Literature Dr. Dorsey Armstrong answers your questions about the Middle Ages from Twitter. Why is it called the "Middle" Ages? What activities did people do for fun?

The Middle Ages aren’t just about heroic knights and epic battles. If there’s one thing that never fails to boost our mood, it’s medieval art! It’s colorful, creative, quirky, and goofy, and it ...

Alexandra Makin undertakes unpaid consultancy work for the Bayeux Tapestry Museum. The Bayeux tapestry is set to return to the UK for the first time in almost 1,000 years. One of the most important ...

Megan Cassidy-Welch receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Travellers have always faced health hazards when far from home. Medieval people were no exception. Pilgrims, crusaders and ...