Medieval Europe produced a number of formidable knights whose reputations were forged on battlefields from Spain to the Holy ...

Marriage in the Middle Ages was far simpler—and more controversial—than most people realize. In many parts of medieval Europe ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Richard II became king of England when he was 10 and was deposed at 32. British Library/Wikimedia Commons My students tend to ...

In the medieval European imagination, racial difference was often highly polarized. Black people were perceived either as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 7,093,3841-part monthly series, Wiki Wormhole. This week’s entry: Prester John What ...

Usually, when people hear the term “illuminated manuscript,” they think of enormous, leather-bound books, produced painstakingly by the hands of medieval European monks, and filled to the brim with ...

The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals. Researchers identified its more distant origin. By Jack Tamisiea Medieval scribes ...

BBC Tech Now meets the makers of Total War strategy series to uncover how they bring medieval cultures to life.

(THE CONVERSATION) My students tend to imagine the Middle Ages as something like the “Kingdom Come” or “Total War” video games: an age of utter political chaos, when swords and daggers ruled, and ...