The medieval period often gets painted as a thousand years of darkness, filth, and ignorance. Popular culture loves to ...

The Middle Ages, usually dated from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, were a period of striking contrasts. Castles rose across Europe, knights pledged their loyalty to their owners, and entire ...

Discover a medieval treasure containing 20,000 silver coins in Stockholm: one of Sweden's most important finds is being ...

Illumination of Saint James the Apostle in the Salamanca copy of the _Liber Sancti Jacobi_ from the Codex Calixtinus. Spanish Ministry of Culture Situated at the end of the Camino de Santiago ...

Music and the smell of food filled the air at The Grammar School as people were transported to a medieval village during the ...

The clamour of (carefully blunted) swords fills the air at Claregalway Castle during a Medieval Armoured Combat Ireland ...

A newly uncovered medieval document is the earliest known to suggest that the Shroud of Turin, widely believed to have been used to wrap Jesus’ crucified body, is not authentic. The findings, ...

Veronika Vikova from Mareva Conservation said many people had not known medieval paint remained on the tombs. One of the ...