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

Medieval England was a dangerous place. Murder rates are estimated to have been between 20 to 50 times higher than today, meaning violent deaths were a regular occurrence. But in a world without ...

Allen Lane has signed Florence Scott’s “bold and original” history of Medieval queenship, Monarchia: A New History of the ...

Several years ago, metal detectorist Mark Sell was searching for treasure at a field in Norfolk, England. He had scanned this ...

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 ...

The most comprehensive study of medieval warhorses ever undertaken will be released in the form of a radical new book this ...

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 ...

A rare Medieval bishop's ring found by a retired firefighter in a Norfolk field is expected to fetch up to £18,000 at auction ...

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 ...

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 ...