You would think that there would be just a few occupations during the Middle Ages. There would be the lord of the manor, the ...

For almost 700 years, these disciplined warriors were respected and feared in Japan, and they carved out a path that made ...

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 ...

An international team of archaeologists, bioinformatic specialists, and historians has discovered that many medieval books ...

The books hail from Clairvaux Abbey, founded in 1115 by Cistercian monks in northern France, and its daughter monasteries. Some tomes are nearly 900 years old. Researchers had thought they were ...

Amicorum is a group of re-enactors from the Leominster Medieval Society. Pupils were surprised to learn that medieval ...

An extraordinary wave of artistic and cultural innovation shattered medieval society and brought European culture reluctantly into the modern era. Buildings were constructed that were bigger and ...

The most comprehensive study of medieval warhorses ever undertaken will be released in the form of a radical new book this week. Based upon extensive archaeological and historical research ...