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?

The influence of the genre we call “fantasy”, which often looks back to the medieval past in order to escape a techno-scientific future, means that the Middle Ages have rarely been associated with ...

Now after years of painstaking collaborative work with the university’s Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory (CHIL), ...

The Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program (Med-Ren) embraces the interdisciplinary study of Europe and the Mediterranean world situated in the context of global cultural exchanges between 300 CE ...

Life in 14th-century Cambridge, England, couldn’t have been easy. As the Black Death faded, it left behind a devastated ...

Bahr undertook a complete re-examination of the tome, complete with spectroscopic analysis and mathematical investigation, to ...

Why medieval couples thought weasel testicles could cure infertility - It wasn’t merely superstition or ‘blind ...

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