We created the database in order to challenge assumptions about the lack of professionalism of everyday soldiers.

The centuries-old dessert evolved from medieval porridge to a festive Christmas staple, with modern cooks keeping the ...

An excavation conducted in the historic center of the town of Třebíč has revealed thirteenth-century carved pottery, the ...

Archaeology reveals that a millennium ago, North America was home to thriving urban centres as large and sophisticated as ...

Underwater archaeologists from Nicolaus Copernicus University have recovered four exceptionally well-preserved medieval spears from Lake Lednica in western Poland, including one ornately decorated ...

This post is in partnership with History Today. The article below was originally published at History Today. We have a tendency to associate youth culture with modernity, but medieval people were as ...

Teen slang '6-7' isn't new - it traces back to medieval dice games from the 1300s. Shakespeare used it in 'Richard II.' ...

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 ...

Roland Scheel, a Scandinavian scholar leading the research, explained that primary sources were written by Christian scholars well over a century after the Viking period ended. Apart from brief runic ...

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, ...