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

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

In this video, we spotlight the most dangerous and ruthless knights of the Middle Ages, whose reputations were built on brutality, strategy, and sheer dominance. From mercenaries to warlords ...

Would you love to launch your own Middle Ages band but can’t find a lutist let alone a good hurdy gurdy player? First off, congratulations on knowing what a hurdy gurdy is (man). But second and ...

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Trade networks birthed a global economy and accelerated the worldwide exchange of ideas. The term “The Middle Ages” is generally meant to apply specifically to Europe, but let’s take a quick ...

Archaeologists in Kazakhstan have discovered 10 kurgans, or burial mounds, dating to the Middle Ages, and some have "mustaches." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

and some parts of Idaho—the Cascadia of the Modern Middle Ages. The SCA isn’t a new thing. It’s been around since Berkeley history buffs threw on costumes and staged a tournament back in 1966.

The seemingly fantastical world of the Middle Ages has held western popular culture ... This use has perpetuated false ideas of what it means to be “native” to Britain, and by extention ...

Moreover, promoting healthy aging is part of a life-course approach aimed at reducing inequalities and supporting vulnerable people to improve well-being at all ages. Many of the policies ... older ...

One thinks of the Middle Ages as a time when peasants rarely moved more than a few miles from their huts or monks from their monasteries—when people generally, other than perhaps the well-to-do ...