Medieval Studies has a choice to make. Just this week controversy erupted over the largest annual academic conference devoted to the study of the Middle Ages in all of its forms - the International ...

You may have seen a fair few skeletons of late, prancing around your cookie packaging or littering your neighbor’s porch. But a fascination with our bodies’ bones goes back much further than modern ...

An armoured knight on a lumbering steed; toiling serfs, tied to the lands of their lord, cloistered monks and nuns, lost in prayer. And don’t forget the scenery: high-walled castles, great gothic ...

A long-standing myth about medieval history is that the Middle Ages were intellectually dark. Science supposedly took a hiatus between the demise of Rome and the rise of Copernican astronomy and ...

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