Birthday celebrations in the Middle Ages weren’t quite what you might expect. In this video, we explore how birthdays were ...

Where Butterfield is asking students to expanding their notion of what counts as “English” literature during the Middle Ages, Hodgkin will challenge his class to transgress all the boundaries placed ...

Travel in the Middle Ages was no easy feat, but people still found ways to get around. In this video, we explore four key modes of transportation from medieval times – from horseback and carts to ...

Peasants were a single class of people who were ... In her essay “Witches and the Myth of the Medieval ‘Burning Time,'” from Misconceptions About the Middle Ages, Anita Obermeier tells ...

Wet nurses were used throughout the Middle Ages by some elite ... humble clothing and headdress signal her class as a worker. Such images show that medieval health care involved many tools ...

The widespread appeal of "medieval-seeming materials" drives students ... and more wealth flowed to what was a growing quasi-middle class. "You start to see a more emotional form of religion ...

Medieval portraits of children were usually ... In the Middle Ages, "we see less art of the middle class or even the common people," Averett says. Once the Renaissance happened, that began to ...

Subjects that are now typically separated into different academic disciplines were rarely separated in the Middle Ages; medieval studies brings these subjects together in a natural, multidisciplinary ...

But while elite medieval women were discouraged from expressing their feelings in daily life, their letters are a rich source of information about their emotions. Many upper-class women were ...