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 ...

Two dozen skeletons and other bones dating to between 670 and 940 C.E. were discovered on the grounds of the historic Old ...

Edited by Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr., and Philip Edward Phillips As a scholar, senator and consul, whose life was centered in Rome and later in Ravenna, Boethius belonged to two worlds—the world of pagan ...

Set in 1350, this medieval drama unfolds through a number of village characters telling their stories of life in the middle ages. We meet the baker, the herbalist, the landless labourer, the medicus ...

At a cathedral in York, England, expert stonemasons are combining cutting-edge technology with ancient technique to bring ...

The book discusses that troubled legacy drawing on the discourses on Muslims originating in the European Middle Ages, and locates the nineteenth-century texts concerning ... The core of this book is ...

Back in the Middle Ages, people had a supernatural explanation ... One notable example was recorded in the Life of St.

A latrine found in Bosham, England, has helped identify the location of the king's long-lost residence, offering new insights into medieval life before ... the Middle Ages and the 19th century ...

Lexington hides in plain sight along McClelland Circle, keeping a once-forgotten fighting style alive on Thursdays and ...

The first complete look at the social status and daily life of medieval Jewish women. This volume, an amazing act of historical recovery and reconstruction, offers a comprehensive examination of ...