A unique and expansive 13th-century text that set out to chronicle the history of humankind is being translated and analyzed ...

It turns out the Dark Ages weren't all that dark. According to new research, medieval medicine was way more sophisticated ...

Medieval medicine is undergoing a reputation makeover. New research reveals that far from being stuck in superstition, early Europeans actively explored healing practices based on nature, observation, ...

Until they began their work, really in the last decade or so, this was a marginal topic of conversation in medieval studies. As a practice, slavery was common in Europe through the entire Middle Ages.

HST 227mm Colloquium: Topics in Medieval European History-Magic in the Middle Ages (4 Credits) The course uses magic as a case study for exploring cultural transmission in the Middle Ages. The course ...

Culture. Making Sense of Medieval History A new book about 10th-century Europe brushes past evidence that might complicate its narrative. David Friedman | 3.5.2013 7:00 AM ...

Tropical disease in medieval Europe revises the history of a pathogen related to syphilis. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2020 / 06 / 200611114530.htm.

Not all medieval nights were created equal - and Halloween was one of the most unsettling. In this episode, we travel back to the Middle Ages to uncover how this eerie tradition took shape long before ...

The mystery of how the medieval world made some of its finest books has at last been solved – after 700 years. New research is revealing the trade secrets of Europe’s very first large-scale ...

Europe, particularly hard-hit, lost somewhere between a third and a half of its population (though historians still dispute the figure). “Many lands and cities were made desolate,” the Italian ...