Medieval News

Here are some news stories from the medievalverse, and a few from beyond it... Crusader Feces An article in the International Journal o...

The minaret of Aleppo's historic Umayyad mosque has been destroyed, with video showing the famous structure in ruins. The Syrian governm...

A Dash Of Olive Oil May Preserve British Cathedral  A report from NPR about using the oleic acid from Olive Oil to preserve York Minster...

So you’ve decided you want to establish a local historic district and have considered where its boundaries should be. Now comes perhaps th...

 It’s a utopian fantasy discover a ghost town and rebuild it in line with your ideals-, but in Spain where there are nearly 3000 abando...

Father Paul Mark Schwan shivers in the morning chill of California's Sacramento Valley, a blue hooded sweatshirt layered over his monk...

Community groups across south Norfolk are celebrating after almost £115,000 was dished out for renovation projects.  Two churches receiv...

By Geoffrey York The Globe and Mail As rebels searched the bags of the truck passengers at a checkpoint near Timbuktu, one man was tryi...

Emma Cunliffe sits in a tiny graduate student’s office on the medieval campus of the University of Durham. But her mind is thousands of mile...

The Flodden 500 Project will receive £887,300 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to commemorate the 500th anniversary of one of the largest bat...

A prototype project at St Laurence’s Church, in St Benedict’s Street, was launched on Saturday in an effort to explore new ways to use the 1...

New protective glazing could be fitted to four medieval windows in Lincoln Cathedral to protect the historic stained glass. Special monitori...

An unusual series of medieval paintings depicting the seven deadly sins could be lost from the walls of All Saints Church at Crostwight ne...

A rescued Norfolk church is among the winners of this year's English Heritage Angel Awards.St Mary's, West Somerton, has a thatched...

A re-enactment of the Battle of Hastings on what is believed to be the original battlefield has been cancelled because of torrential rain....

Today is Columbus Day, a solemn occasion marked by parades, pageantry, and buckets of fake blood splashed on statues of its namesake. Activi...

The Superintendence for Archaeological Heritage of Rome announces the extraordinary opening to the public of the restoration site of the ear...

Al-Madina ofAleppo, Syria’s most populous city and its commercial capital, was the world’s largest covered market – until entire sectors in ...

Plans for a £3.5m project to uncover the river in the centre of Rochdale have taken a step closer.  The scheme would see three sections ...

One of the largest surviving medieval timber framed barns in the South East has been restored as part of an £8 million conservation projec...