Medieval News

Winchester Cathedral has started preparatory work for the potentially groundbreaking research into the contents of its mortuary chests. H...

The cathedral in Stavanger was built in the year 1125, and is one of the earliest pieces of evidence for permanent settlement in the Norwegi...

Fascinating records from the Church Courts of York are now available on-line at the Borthwick Institute for Archives at the University of Yo...

A new interactive version of The Acts and Monuments by John Foxe has been published online by the University of Sheffield. This work, availa...

Russia is marking for the first time in its history the Day of Baptizing of Kievan Rus – a new ‘commemorative date’ that has been establishe...

The Shroud of Turin has been put on display in the Turin Cathedral, the first time it has been seen by the public in ten years. The cloth, ...

A recent book by St Andrews University academic Rev Dr Ian Bradley, which offers a history of the pilgrimage over the past two millennia, is...

During the Middle Ages Leicestershire people made difficult journeys to distant religious shrines but this important spiritual activity neve...

A recent article has detailed the corruption of a 14th century Archbishop of Dublin, showing how he was caught for extensive embezzlement a...

The Lindisfarne Gospels, one of the world's great treasures, could be heading to Durham’s World Heritage Site in 2013. Durham is bidding...

The Journal of Medieval History has released its latest issue (Volume 35:4), with six new articles mostly focusing on aspects of medieval C...

The Crux Vaticana, a cross given to the city of Rome by a Byzantine emperor in the 6th century, has been restored after two years of work. ...

Grover Zinn, Emeritus Professor at Oberlin College, has been awarded an Emeritus Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to continue...

The Fordham Medieval Studies Program closed out its 2009 Spring Lecture Series with a look at one of the odder figures from 16th-century Ita...