New scientific research confirms Irish provenance of manuscripts on loan from Switzerland, returning to Ireland for the first ...

Catholic worshippers have for weeks flocked to Alba de Tormes, a town ringed by rolling pastures in western Spain where the ...

Is loneliness a modern epidemic as we are so often told? Did people in the past suffer similar feelings of isolation?

Situated on the ancient trade route between Central Asia and northern Europe, Novgorod was Russia's first capital ... The most ancient Russian Old Church Slavonic manuscripts (11th century) were ...

The practice of adopting a new name became ingrained during the 11th century, a period of German popes who chose names of early church bishops out of “a desire to signify continuity ...

Out of 266 popes, only 129 have taken new names. The tradition solidified in the 11th century, often reflecting continuity with early bishops or honouring the pope who elevated them to cardinal.

In 11th-Century England, a dark-skinned saint with ... had already attained the status of a saint across Europe. "But it was only when the story was translated into Old English that it became ...

Known locally as Paris Galli, or Paris Street, it transports visitors to a European city with grand ... in this part of western India in the 11th century. The Bohras are a close-knit trading ...

Europe is in flux. The powerful nations we ... worked - yet they are largely unknown outside India. Prior to the 11th Century, the Cholas had been one of the many squabbling powers that dotted ...

The story, set in 11th century Europe, follows Thorfinn, the son of a great Viking warrior, who grew up listening to the stories of old sailors who traveled to the legendary place Vinland.