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 ...

The history of Europe was forever changed during the Great Migration of Peoples,a turbulent yet transformative era from the ...

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 ...

Keywords medieval Europe, Church, Emperors, Nobility, feudal system, peasants, Magna Carta, knighthood, minstrels, Crusades, trade, middle class, Black Death, education, printing press ...

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

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 ...

In other words, collective decision-making in medieval Europe was often very practical. Even the Carolingians – an imperial family in the 9th century – were deeply reliant on the nobility as ...

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.

The medieval castle of Quermanco in Catalonia. Its wealthy inhabitants probably drank wine because they could afford it, but water was the most common drink in medieval Europe Photo by Lluis Gene ...