This video tackles the question of gender roles in medieval warfare and society. It explores how reproductive biology and military needs shaped perceptions of male and female value in medieval times.

Researchers cite new evidence of how a medieval British noblewoman may have plotted to exact revenge and help kill her former ...

An analysis of a 700-year-old ring reveals a unique reddish-purple sapphire set in 18-karat gold with a lion decoration.

A study of Danish skulls showing signs of healed fractures revealed that men living during Medieval times in Europe had an increased risk of dying -- even after surviving an axe to the head.

Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of a large medieval cathedral in the subterranean citadel of Old Dongola, once the ...

Over the next four days, designers will present their vision for what they think people will be wearing next spring.

The University of Cambridge project reveals sky-high homicide rates in medieval London, York and Oxford and shows that male college students were among the most frequent killers.

In the end, the only charge that ever stuck in the murder case was an indictment against one of the family’s former servants. Five years after the first trial in 1342, Hugh Colne was convicted of ...

some women in late medieval London still had agency — especially where murder was concerned. “Ela was not the only woman who would recruit men to kill, to help her protect her reputation ...

It's easy to lose oneself down the rabbit hole of medieval murder for hours, filtering the killings by year, choice of weapon ...

Anna Komnene, the 11th-century Byzantine princess who defied medieval norms to become one of the first female historians with ...