One of the most misunderstood periods of history is the Middle Ages, which ranged from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ...

A long-standing myth about medieval history is that the Middle Ages were intellectually dark. Science supposedly took a hiatus between the demise of Rome and the rise of Copernican astronomy and ...

This year at Yale, two new literature classes will push the boundaries — cultural, linguistic, and geographic — of what we talk about when we talk about medieval literature. The aims of the classes ...

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Another day, another (supposedly) "botched" restoration of a medieval artwork. As reported recently, a local tobacco shop owner in town housing a 15th-century statue ...

The previously unknown settlement appears to have been abandoned at some point in the 1300s, but researchers don’t know why An exhibition called “Paws on Parchment” tracks how cats were depicted in ...

When COVID-19 swept the globe in 2020, epidemiologists weren’t the only ones thinking they’d seen it all before. So did medieval historians. Diseases — especially the bubonic plague — ravaged many ...

Historians recently unearthed some "health hacks" dating back to the Middle Ages – and some sound like they came straight off TikTok. The database, called the Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine, ...

SYRACUSE, NY -- You can imagine the sturdy wood tables and massive bar supporting the tankards and flagons of many a merry ale drinker of olden times. Or maybe even a group of Vikings in the corner ...