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

Medieval Europe wasn’t just about castles and cathedrals – it was also home to some of the most ambitious mega projects in history. In this video, we explore the grand visions that pushed the limits ...

(AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) The Vatican would beg to differ — since the Middle Ages, the Holy See has positioned ... centuries and eventually the basic ideas were diffused into various regional ...

It’s a big change for researchers in terms of contextualizing the lives of disabled people in the Middle Ages. "Inferring social norms around physical impairment and disability from religious ...

All of the classes teach Middle Ages crafts and skills and are led by local SCA members. Monday’s class will explore leather, a valuable resource and material in medieval times. Participants ...

Archaeologists in Sweden have combined historical documents, digital excavation records, and cutting-edge 3D modelling to tell the story of what it may have been like to live with a disability in the ...

Doom: The Dark Ages is certainly a bit more medieval than you might have expected. The Doom Slayer's now dropped into a sort of techno-middle-ages ... running out of new ideas, and by then ...

There's so much in it. It's like the Wikipedia of today. It's a real snapshot into the Middle Ages." It was written by the man known as the prime historian of Leinster, Áed Úa Crimthainn ...

A myth persists that during the Middle Ages, the unenlightened believed Earth was flat and worried that ships might even fall off the planet’s edge. That’s patently false: People knew the ...

Vox spoke to Matthew Averett, an art history professor at Creighton University, to find out why this trend toward intentionally old-looking babies abounded during the Middle Ages—and what ...

The election process in the early Middle Ages was quite transparent and collegial: Early popes were selected by consensus by the Roman deacons and nearby bishops, who then presented the pope-elect ...

Events - Bucharest is turning into an open stage for contemporary design. Romanian Design Week 2025, organized by The ...