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 ...

But in the cramped and unforgiving streets of Medieval England, this biological edge vanished. A new study reveals that ...

Magic was a big part of medieval life. This period of history saw the lasting distinction made between black and white magic. Black Magic included witchcraft, was associated with the devil and was ...

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 ...

Life in Medieval Europe wasn't quite what you might expect. Warfare at the time, while quite different from modern warfare, was also very different from the way it's often depicted in fictional media.

This module focuses on Japan’s medieval period, including the Kamakura (1185-1333), the Muromachi (1336-1573), and the Momoyama (1573-1603) shogunates. Photograph ...

Professor Richard Holmes, a British military historian featured in the NOVA film "Medieval Siege," talks here about everyday life in a medieval English castle, giving a sense of how lords and ...

Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (essay collections ... The authors show how it traveled from one capital to the other, narrating the entire life and interesting times of this codex.

An Aberystwyth University academic is part of an international team that has made an exciting discovery linking an ...

Their findings, published in the journal Parasitology, sheds light on the robust trade networks and day-to-day life of the medieval period, and helps scientists understand the spread of diseases ...