Historian and host of the Gone Medieval podcast Matt Lewis ranks the most famous helmets from the medieval period. From the Great Helm to Sutton Hoo, Matt scores each helmet on protection, comfort, ...

Over the centuries, works of medieval literature have become lost. Today, roughly 68 percent of chivalric and heroic works ...

Most of us have skeletons in our closets, but they can also lurk in much less familiar places. Literally.

A 15th Century manuscript containing the unusual treatment features in a new exhibition detailing the bizarre cures that were used for all manner of ills in the medieval period. The 'cure' for ...

New research suggests that women were the scribes of at least 1.1 percent of manuscripts in the Latin West between 400 and 1500 C.E.

Throughout the medieval period, there were over 1,000 monasteries in England. They were built all over the country. During this period, there was no free health care provided by the government.

Many are documented within handwritten medieval manuscripts dating back ... but insights into the time period in which it existed. Experts now believe the sections originally belonged to a ...

She added: "The area to the north of Howden would have been the focus for a number of small settlements in the medieval period." ...