Medieval News

 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...

María Rosa Menocal, a renowned scholar and historian of medieval culture and literature, passed away on October 15th after a three-year ba...

A former caretaker of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, along with his wife, son, and another women, have been arrested by Spanish po...

Could a poolside folly at a private Mediterranean resort in Spain owned by a reclusive German billionaire actually be a 12th century archi...

The throne clad in red velvet was magnificent, the embroidered eagle stared menacingly, and the dome embellished in geometric motifs surreal...

An exceptional 12th-century cloister has been sitting for half a decade inside the garden of a private home in Girona province without any...

The University of Wisconsin-Madison will host an international symposium to celebrate two of the greatest works of Spanish literature: the 1...

UCLA’s Teofilo F. Ruiz, an internationally recognized historian whose work focuses on medieval Spain and Europe, will be awarded the Nationa...

The most mysterious painting in the history of European art just got a little more mysterious. For centuries, Madrid's Prado Museum has ...

In one of cinema’s most beloved scenes, Charlie Chaplin’s Great Dictator plays in his office with a beachball-sized balloon representing the...

The great medieval Jewish poets of Spain are part and parcel of our Jewish heritage; names like Dunash ibn Labrat, Solomon ibn Gabirol, Mose...

Hispanic Research Journal has released its February 2012 issue today, with a special issue entitled Negotiating Power in the Iberian Inquisi...

A priceless fourth-century Roman mosaic in Baños de Valderados, Burgos, has been irreparably damaged by thieves, who ripped out three separa...

t’s been a decade and a half since manuscript hunter George Greenia discovered a missing medieval Spanish document in the archives at the Un...

Recent research has uncovered that female slaves in the Spanish city of Valencia were using a novel way to escape their enslavement – they g...

The Camino de Santiago is one of Christendom’s most sacred pilgrimage routes, ranking third after Jerusalem and Rome. In effect, it comprise...

The World Monuments Fund and American Express have announced a partnership for the conservation and improved access to the Alhambra, the fam...

The Spanish newspaper El Pais is reporting that the police are looking over hundreds of hours of video footage and having teams go into the ...

In what is being called the ‘robbery of the century’, a priceless 12th-century manuscript has been stolen from the Santiago de Compostela. T...

A hugely valuable illuminated manuscript has disappeared from the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain, say police. The Cod...