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Since March, every Monday evening, members of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) have been gathering at The Well.
Archaeologists in Sweden have combined historical documents, digital excavation records, and cutting-edge 3D modelling to tell the story of what it may have been like to live with a disability in the ...
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 ...
The skeleton of a man with a severe dislocated fracture of the knee, found in a cemetery in Lund, southern Sweden, is helping ...
The skeleton, referred to as individual 2399, belonged to a man of about 30 years of age who lived in the late Middle Ages (1300–1536 CE). At some point in his twenties, his left femur (thigh ...
Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into the binding of another ...
Large wooden structures similar to our modern-day wardrobes were quite common to sleep in and were also known as a closed bed or wardrobe bed. Its use was widespread throughout Europe from ...
Two British academics discovered that a “copy” of the medieval text, held in Harvard Law School’s library for 80 years, is ...