In parts of medieval Europe, animals accused of crimes were tried in formal court proceedings. Pigs, bulls, and even insects could face charges ranging from murder to crop destruction. Secular courts ...

The rack became one of the most infamous instruments of torture in medieval Europe, used to extract confessions in cases of treason and heresy. Though never formally sanctioned under English common ...

Yearning princesses locked away in castles, heroic knights, hawkish Vikings — fragments of medieval European stories have permeated nearly every aspect of contemporary culture, from Taylor Swift songs ...

Usually, when people hear the term “illuminated manuscript,” they think of enormous, leather-bound books, produced painstakingly by the hands of medieval European monks, and filled to the brim with ...

And in Europe, the medieval era was particularly disease-ridden. But what happened when money and social stigma collided? To ...

Art and Nature in the Middle Ages On View December 4, 2016 à March 19, 2017 at the Dallas Museum of Art Aquamanile (water jug) in the shape of a unicorn Workshop of the Flammschweiflšwen, Nuremberg, ...

Queen Mary University of London provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. My book Cities of Strangers: Making Lives in Medieval Europe is about the ways newcomers were received and accepted ...

This week saw more than 2,500 scholars of the Middle Ages descend on the University of Leeds (England) for the 25th annual International Medieval Congress. There, over the course of 4 days and more ...

In medieval Europe, a rivalry between two assertive cultures — Christians and Jews, who both considered themselves “God’s Chosen People” — gave rise to modern antisemitism, argues Yale’s Ivan G.

Christians in medieval Europe appear to have inadvertently influenced the evolution of modern chickens to boost traits relating to their egg-laying abilities and how friendly they are. In a new study ...

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, ...