Europe is home to several UNESCO World Heritage sites, but there are some lesser-known, yet equally fascinating ones ...

From misty Scottish isles to cobblestoned Belgian streets, this journey brings Northern Europe's fairytale charm to life.

A unique and expansive 13th-century text that set out to chronicle the history of humankind is being translated and analyzed ...

A time of innovation, philosophy, and legendary works of art: the realities of the medieval period (500 to 1500 C.E.) in Europe may surprise you. Many know the years before the Renaissance and ...

Until about 10 years ago, this remote region barely saw any international travellers. But thanks to a new 3000-kilometre ...

Medieval Europe was not as globalised as our world is, but there were substantial routes of trade, travel, mission and conquest which linked Asia, Africa and Europe. Along these routes – by land, and ...

Europe’s wider economic “take-off” in the nineteenth century can be seen in a similar light. The creation of strong and stable states in nineteenth-century Europe enabled investment in ...

While Early Medieval Europe is often viewed as a time of cultural stagnation, a new study claims that this may not be the case after all. Researchers have revealed that new ideas spread rapidly ...

The mystery of how the medieval world made some of its finest books has at last been solved – after 700 years. New research is revealing the trade secrets of Europe’s very first large-scale ...

The point is that if one used just Northern Europe's tree ring data, the medieval warm period would look very strong, while Southern European proxies would show no warm period.