Herald of Ages explained why the Medieval Period is known as the Middle Ages because it sits between the Roman Empire and the ...

Medieval England was a dangerous place. Murder rates are estimated to have been between 20 to 50 times higher than today, ...

Medieval Europe’s diverse regional cultures were balanced by a conscious attempt to create a unified view of the world that embraced religious and social ideals, Latin and vernacular literature, and ...

As a result, animals turned up "in any possible context where art would be made", from wall paintings and carved doorways to ...

A team at the University of Bergen in Norway have determined that a minimum of 1.1% of medieval manuscripts from around 800 ...

The most comprehensive study of medieval warhorses ever undertaken will be released in the form of a radical new book this ...

Though films and TV series about the Middle Ages do not always attract the same level of love and critical praise as those set in other periods of history, there are still a number of notable ...

New research suggests that women were the scribes of at least 1.1 percent of manuscripts in the Latin West between 400 and ...

The metal suits worn by knights during the Middle Ages were originally designed to protect against weapons such as swords. But could medieval armor also stop bullets?

There were very few doctors in the Middle Ages. Training to be a doctor could take years of study and, at the time, there were very few universities. The main European universities in the Middle ...

A TASTE for art usually comes to us somewhat late in life, because, in nine cases out of ten, the taste is not cultivated or developed till long after school life. We have, in fact, no regular art ...