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With Emma Stone, Cate Blanchett, Sophie Turner and Saoirse Ronan in attendance, Louis Vuitton’s Resort 2026 presentation ...
“We all live close to each other, like in a sort of beguinage (a medieval community of religious and laypeople), and meet at the church to pray and support those in difficulty,” explained ...
Christmas in the Middle Ages wasn’t all carols and cozy fires. From fasting and feasting to bitter winters and strict religious customs, celebrating the holiday back then meant something very ...
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Medieval Polygamy: Who Practiced It and Why?
Polygamy played a nuanced role in medieval society, shaped by religion, politics, and culture. In this video, we look at how it functioned across different regions, why it was embraced by some and ...
Learn how researchers combined modern tech, text, and bones to uncover details about a disabled man’s life in medieval Sweden ...
Tucked in a quiet Moray glen, 13th century Pluscarden Abbey is Britain’s only medieval monastery still inhabited by monks.
The skeleton of a man with a severe dislocated fracture of the knee, found in a cemetery in Lund, southern Sweden, is helping ...
Clinging almost impossibly to a sheer cliff in northern Greece, the Monastery of Simonos Petra, also known as Simonopetra — ...
Canterbury Cathedral has been a significant pilgrimage destination for over a thousand years. Despite the West’s growing secularization, there seems to be no shortage of travelers from around the ...
A history conference focussing on medieval times will be held in Tipperary this Summer. Lorrha & Dorrha Medieval Conference ...
But the common image of medieval people as slovenly ... An aquamanile is a vessel used in the ritual of hand washing in both religious (i.e. by a priest before mass) and secular contexts (i.e ...
The critical point was, again, the Middle Ages, and there you had an adversarial position ... In the Roman Empire, Roma was a god with the particular sacrifices and religious obliga tions due to this ...