A university choir has revived music found hiding in plain sight in a book from southern England's Buckland Abbey ...

The 22nd of March 1144 was Holy Saturday, the day before Easter. Outside the city walls, the forester Henry de Sprowston was ...

Farmers skinned cats about 1,000 years ago in Spain, possibly for the medieval cat-fur industry or a "magical" pagan ritual, a new study finds.

Medieval Rituals Retained For 1944's Commencement | News | The Harvard CrimsonA Senior with a good voice and presence, and classical training (they are hard to find nowadays), delivers the ...

medieval burial rituals, and plague victims hastily buried far beneath the Tower’s grounds. A late 15th-century depiction of the Tower of London and its keep, the White Tower. The White Tower was ...

An important social ritual in the Middle Ages, handwashing was also depicted in medieval art. In this 14th-century altarpiece from the Cathedral of Siena, Pontius Pilate washes his hands as he ...

Frankly, such rituals seem like practices straight out of medieval Europe. But as it turns out, they would have been alien even at the time of Richard the Lion Heart.

A medieval mikveh, a bath used for ritual immersion in Judaism, in Speyer, Germany. Rudolf Ernst/iStock via Getty Images Plus ...

Christians Supplied Medieval Pagans With Horses for Sacrifice Published May 17, 2024 at 2:00 PM EDT Updated Jun 28, 2024 at 2:42 PM EDT By Aristos Georgiou ...