Step back in time and explore the most enchanting medieval towns in Europe! From a mystical French commune to an Italian city ...

Like so many of Europe's small-town wonders, Bruges is now well-pickled because its economy went sour so quickly. Here's how ...

IN THE hills of central Spain is the pretty pink town of Albarracín. With medieval walls and the remains of castles, it’s ...

The Middle Ages, with its crippling poverty and lack of law and order, was the perfect time for unscrupulous men to turn to a ...

A new study in PNAS uses historical and ecological data to examine the rise and fall of Piast Poland, investigating the factors necessary for the emergence and sustainability of state-run social ...

Trick-or-treating has a long and winding history, beginning as a tradition during a Celtic holiday in medieval Europe. The modern version of the Halloween tradition began to take shape after it ...

The volume features original new work on Old Norse poetry and saga, other languages and literatures of medieval north-western Europe, and the afterlife of Old Norse in modern English literature.

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 ...

At least until an archivist took another look, setting off a yearslong project to identify and then reassemble the medieval manuscript, which someone in Tudor England had taken apart and used to ...

Sheffield is home to one of the largest communities of medieval archaeologists in the UK, with expertise ranging from late antiquity to the early modern period. Our research specialisms lie ...

Set in 1350, this medieval drama unfolds through a number of village characters telling their stories of life in the middle ages. We meet the baker, the herbalist, the landless labourer, the medicus ...

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 ...