England was never as isolated as many history books once suggested. New research shows that people moved into and across ...

A professor is challenging old assumptions about the iconic Bayeux Tapestry, proposing it was created for a refectory for ...

Orderic Vitalis, born in England near Shrewsbury in 1075 and sent to the Norman monastery of St Évroult at the age of five, was explicit about this twin need. Water for washing, sanitation, drinking, ...

Learn how ancient DNA and tooth enamel are rewriting England’s medieval history and showing connections between climate ...

Introduced in the wake of the Norman Conquest, the murdrum fine was meant to protect Norman settlers from revenge killings.

The combination of filigree and granulation techniques arrived in Norway during the early Middle Ages from the Byzantine Empire, partly via Carolingian goldsmithing traditions. The Carolingian period, ...

Horses are instinctively wired to run from danger. So how did medieval armies train them to thunder towards enemy lines ...

Medieval Studies has a choice to make. Just this week controversy erupted over the largest annual academic conference devoted to the study of the Middle Ages in all of its forms - the International ...

Each May, some 3,000 people descend on Kalamazoo, Mich., for the International Congress on Medieval Studies, which brings together academics and enthusiasts for four days of scholarly panels, ...