Century England, a dark-skinned saint with a promiscuous past became a boundary-breaking cultural and religious icon. A new ...

Life in 14th-century Cambridge, England, couldn’t have been easy. As the Black Death faded, it left behind a devastated ...

In medieval England, women in labor wrapped birth girdles around their abdomens to protect themselves and their unborn children. These parchment or paper rolls replicated the “girdle relics” of the ...

Most people in medieval society lived in villages, there were few large towns. The majority of people were peasants, who worked on the land. There were a range of jobs and trades in towns and ...

Basing their designs on surviving medieval houses in York ... served as representatives of the whole Jewish community of England, and for a time, Aaron was considered the richest man in the ...

It's described as one of the earliest forms of soccer with one ancient rule telling players not to murder each other.

Work has begun to conserve and enhance a "vital" historic monument. St Oswald's Priory in Gloucester was built by Alfred the ...

For the first time in 700 years, the sounds of the Luttrell Psalter will echo through Dunster Castle as de Mowbray’s Musicke ...

Dr Jordan Claridge is developing a new dataset in order to understand wages in medieval England and the massive economic and societal changes of the late Middle Ages. Such views are generally based on ...

It's a little bit ribald and tantalising – Irina Dumitrescu In her opinion "what's important about her dark skin is that it demonstrates that the culture of medieval England is a more ...