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

A bankrupt treasury, disastrous foreign policy and a civil war: this is the story of how Henry III lost control of his own ...

In the Middle Ages, the structure of society was primarily ... Healthcare during the medieval period was rudimentary, and ...

A research project by the Museum Centre Vapriikki has shed new light on infant feeding practices in medieval and early modern ...

How did Gothic art influence the modernists? An exhibition in Norway explores how artists like Dürer and Hans Holbein's ...

Witnessing a crime was one thing for medieval townspeople, but reporting it was another matter entirely… ...

Subjects that are now typically separated into different academic disciplines were rarely separated in the Middle Ages ... aspects of the same time period and comprise together a meaningful ...

Armor vs. bullets Exactly when the medieval period or "Middle Ages" started and ended is a matter of debate, with dates falling roughly between A.D. 500 and 1500. Although the period is ...

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

For some time, many of these looked to the medieval period as a moment of chivalry and knightly quest. More recently, however, popular culture set in the Middle Ages has leaned into the gritty and ...

More female scribes from this period have likely ... manuscripts produced during the Middle Ages were copied by women. Since roughly 75,000 of the 10 million medieval manuscripts have survived ...

The Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates was hailed by Medieval ... Middle Ages was bloodletting. There were two methods of bloodletting – either a patient’s vein was opened and drained for a ...