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

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

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

Archaeologists excavating a mysterious medieval cemetery in Wales have uncovered compelling evidence that the burial ground was part of an early female religious community. The discovery of a possible ...

The article ‘How Medieval Monks Tried to Stay Warm in the Winter’ by Giles Gasper was originally published on The Conversation and has been republished under a Creative Commons license.

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

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 ...

Where do modern social institutions — like universities, legal systems, and capitalist economies — come from? The genesis of many institutions and concepts can be traced back to the medieval and early ...