Medieval News

For decades the experts at the British Museum believed that this item, discovered at a woman's grave from Norway was just a hook used...

May a Man Marry a Man? A Medieval Debate  Charles J. Reid, a Professor at the University of St.Thomas and writer on religious issues for t...

Adam Davis is a historian whose research causes him to straddle centuries on a daily basis. Now, the associate professor has received a ye...

THE WAR ON HERESY By R.I. Moore Published by Harvard University Press, $35  Long ago and far away, in lands now known as Southern France a...

One of the most interesting manuscripts of the late Middle Ages is now available online – The Geese Book, a lavishly and whimsically illumi...

Imagine a stick partially submerged in a pool of water. It appears to be broken at the point where water meets air, but in fact it is in o...

Danish Archaeologists have been busy digging around the old Cathedral in Ribe for several years. Here lies a cemetery, which was abandone...

Not only is the Turin Shroud probably a medieval fake but it is just one of an astonishing 40 so-called burial cloths of Jesus, according...

More than 400 years before modern-day governments tried shutting down blogs or blocking tweets, two people tasked with censoring a someti...

An ancient stone thought to have been used for Christian prayers or curses has been uncovered on a Scottish island. A farm manager chanced...

Margot Fassler, Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and Liturgy at the University of Notre Dame, was awarded the 2012 Otto Gründler B...

A medieval pilgrimage route to major historic religious site is to be resurrected – and organisers hope it will grow to rival a similar even...

It sounds like the plot of a Dan Brown thriller: A powerful medieval pope makes a secret pact to prop up the fishing industry that ultimatel...

A fascinating discovery is shedding light upon pre-Christian Scandinavian religion and early Christian inroads into Norway. In the Norwegian...

One of the earliest Anglo-Saxon Christian burial sites in Britain has been discovered in a village outside Cambridge. The grave of a teenage...

Perspectives on the relationship between gender and religion come from sources as far apart as studies of medieval Christian interpretations...

The English scholar Bede (c.673-735) is often regarded as the father of English history, principally because of his five-volume epic Histori...

In the past year, Jennifer Deane, associate professor of history at the University of Minnesota Morris, has received two grants: the Univers...

An earthquake ravages a small town in central Italy. Catastrophic fissures rip through the buildings; desperate cries can be heard from thos...

The viral video of a group of U.S. Marines urinating on dead bodies in Afghanistan is getting called a lot of names: "horrifying,"...