Century England, a dark-skinned saint with a promiscuous past became a boundary-breaking cultural and religious icon. A new ...

A rare Medieval bishop's ring found by a retired firefighter in a Norfolk field is expected to fetch up to £18,000 at auction ...

England's storied history is etched into its landscape, with numerous towns and villages preserving their medieval character ...

Medieval” has come to mean backward, uninformed, and brutal, particularly when looking at the lives of women. This does not ...

In medieval England, women in labor wrapped birth girdles around their abdomens to protect themselves and their unborn children. These parchment or paper rolls replicated the “girdle relics” of the ...

It's described as one of the earliest forms of soccer with one ancient rule telling players not to murder each other.

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 ...

The ring, discovered by a metal detectorist in the U.K., is estimated to sell for between $19,000 and $23,000 at auction.

Dr Jordan Claridge is developing a new dataset in order to understand wages in medieval England and the massive economic and societal changes of the late Middle Ages. Such views are generally based on ...

The ball is thrown to the into play at the start of the annual Shrovetide medieval hugball soccer that is match played in ...