In the early 1920s, a scientist named Ronald Fisher poured a cup of tea and offered it to his colleague Muriel Bristol. She ...

Bryn Mawr Assistant Professor of English Pardis Dabashi is bringing together a host of scholars for “Persianate Worlds,” a ...

Historians were surprised when analyses revealed Catholic monks used pinniped hides for the protective outer layer on some ...

An international team of archaeologists, bioinformatic specialists, and historians has discovered that many medieval books ...

But the bullet-dodging days ended with the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018. Eleven Jews were ...

The monks curated a vast manuscript and book collection at the Library of Clairvaux Abbey, a site in Champagne, France, founded in 1115. The group of 12th- and 13th-century works expanded to more than ...

“It was first thought to be a 14th-century story about Sir Gawain but further examination revealed it to be part of the Old French Vulgate Merlin sequel, a different and extremely significant ...

Challenging word-based games are not a modern invention. In early medieval England there was a strong appetite for word ...

A new exhibition at the London Museum Docklands spotlights hundreds of mudlarking finds, from Bronze Age tools to Viking ...

With their winding streets, historic buildings and charming atmosphere, these medieval towns and villages will take you back ...

But to fully delve into what personal style means in a modern context, we have to start somewhere within its loose history.

A 15th Century statue that was found smashed into 170 fragments behind a church wall has been painstakingly pieced together ...