As they dig foundations and stack stones, the women take on everyone from Ovid to the guy who wrote the proverb, “God made women to speak, weep, and sew.” Over the past 600 years, a few of de Pizan’s ...

A study of a remarkable medieval skeleton found in a well at a castle in Norway has helped to corroborate events detailed in an 800-year-old Norse saga. Michael Martin, one of the authors of the ...

A new exhibition at the British Library explores the public, private and spiritual lives of such figures as Joan of Arc, Christine de Pizan and Hildegard of Bingen Medieval women’s lives were ...

An aerial survey has revealed hundreds of medieval archaeological features thousands of feet above sea level along the famous Silk Road—a network of ancient trade routes that connected ...

Medieval times were characterized by the bubonic plague ... Another recipe for lamb or mutton stew reads, "'Take veel other[wise] motoun and smyte it to gobettes." During this era, the Catholic church ...

Please verify your email address. Medieval city-builders offer a unique starting-from-scratch experience. The best of these games allow players to create realistic villages on natural landscapes.

The Sverris saga, a quasi-fictional historical account from the end of the 12th century CE, recaps the reign of the medieval Norwegian king Sverre Sigurdsson. One of the best-known passages ...

This was the first full-scale history of medieval English literature for nearly a century. Thirty-three distinguished contributors offer a collaborative account of literature composed or transmitted ...

The Appalachian Renaissance Faire of Tennessee brought an immersive medieval experience to Greene County over the weekend, ...

The book is original and scholarly, and its conclusions are wise." Simon Barton, University of Exeter "This is the first monograph that analyzes the Muslim communities of medieval Latin Christendom.

When I played Mirthwood’s demo a couple of months ago, I knew I wouldn’t be able to rest until I grabbed myself a ...