For all their hard work, peasants had a fair amount of downtime. Add up Sundays and the many holidays, and about one-third of ...

Joe Grantham is a contributor from the UK with a degree in Classical Studies. His love for gaming is only rivaled by a deep passion for medieval history, which often seeps into his articles. With over ...

Miri Rubin does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Joe Grantham is a contributor from the UK with a degree in Classical Studies. His love for gaming is only rivaled by a deep passion for medieval history, which often seeps into his articles. With over ...

FOR some years past, owing mainly to the labours of Colonel Yule, European students have been made acquainted with the travels of European explorers of the Middle Ages in Central Asia and China. In ...

Madeleine S. Killacky does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

The remains of a medieval woman who produced sacred texts and was "plugged into a vast global communication network" that would have stretched to Afghanistan has been discovered in Germany. The ...

THERE are few words which can evoke such a wealth and variety of reactions as “medieval.” To the average man, perhaps, it recalls glimpses of illuminated missals caught in a brief walk through the ...

So long as the student occupies himself with political history only, he may fail to perceive the unity of Europe ; he may think that each nation has followed its own course. But when he turns to ...

Alongside his role in the development of British comedy, the Monty Python writer and director Terry Jones, who has died at 77, made significant contributions to Chaucerian scholarship and mediaeval ...