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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Medieval Institute Publications played a founding role in setting up a series of affordable classroom texts with TEAMS. Originally focused on making available accessible editions of Middle English ...

Research by University of Leicester medieval expert Dr Ben Parsons reveals ... The project examines writing from the Middle Ages and highlights historical debates on the use of corporal punishment ...

This is troubling to many of those who study the Middle Ages for a living. The embrace of the medieval extends from the alt-right online forum culture that has exploded in the last few years to ...

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 ...