Medieval Dutch site may have hosted ‘devil’s money’ cult rituals - Exactly which gods people in the area prayed to remains a ...

What happens when a continent is torn apart by a hundred years of war, while another flourishes with trade, innovation, and ...

The medieval settlement included an inner city-citadel on a high rocky plateau, an outer city and unfortified suburbs.

A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to ...

Medieval Europe’s diverse regional cultures were balanced by a conscious attempt to create a unified view of the world that embraced religious and social ideals, Latin and vernacular literature, and ...

The Rašaška site is part of the larger settlement of Bobare, which was owned in the early Middle Ages by the Knights Templar, a military order that took its name from Jerusalem's legendary Temple of ...

Recent finds uncovered by metal detecting efforts near the hamlet of Hezingen in the Netherlands, however, prompted ...

The Black Death (1347-51) devastated European society. Writing four decades after the event, the English monk and chronicler, Thomas Walsingham, remarked that “so much wretchedness followed ...

In the heart of Somerset, England's smallest city is home to a hidden gem-Europe's oldest surviving medieval street that ...

Historian Diana Darke argues in “Islamesque” that Europe’s monuments owe a vast debt to Muslim craftsmen and designers.