Every few months, a post does the rounds claiming that women in the Middle Ages in Europe routinely poisoned their husbands ...

In the medieval feudal system, the nobility were generally those who held a fief, often land or office under vassalage in ...

How did medieval Europe’s money system really work? While gold and silver coins were important, credit-based money systems were just as vital. This video explores how merchants in Italy and Flanders ...

The sunken ship reveals that the medieval European economy was growing fast. Archaeologists recently found the wreck of an ...

Three early-career scholars explored medieval Slavonic translations from Byzantine Greek during their FSP Fellowships in Innsbruck. They contributed to digital research tools, exchanged ideas with ...

History is often taught as if progress moves in a straight line—from ancient Greece to Rome, from medieval Europe to the Renaissance, from industrialization to modernity. Africa, in this telling, ...

From a 5,500-year-old human shin bone, scientists have discovered a close cousin of the pathogen that causes syphilis, ...

One of Europe’s oldest university sights is the Book of Kells, tucked away in the library of the venerable Trinity College in ...

From a 5,500-year-old human shinbone, scientists have discovered a close cousin of the pathogen that causes syphilis, ...

Researchers reveal genetic insights disproving claims that medieval Greek population in the Peloponnese went extinct.

Often overlooked in favour of its regional rivals, Poland is emerging as one of the continent’s most engaging and varied ...

It always amazes me how much history is still being uncovered today, despite the time that has been dedicated to looking and ...