During the Medieval Period in the West, the Christian worldview predominated, yet it’s crucial to acknowledge the significant ...

Researchers found that men and women lived to around the same ages, and life expectancy wasn’t extended for women. During the Medieval Period, life expectancy was much lower than it is today, at ...

Overall, the study’s revelations shed light on how cultural norms can shape life expectancy in profound ways. While today’s ...

Medieval and early modern mince pies were big enough to feed an entire family, documents unearthed by the National Archives ...

A 540-year-old manuscript sharing duties to be carried out each month for the year ahead is set to go on display. Written in ...

In medieval England it was only priests and churchmen who could read. However, non-churchmen were able to get around this by learning a verse from the Bible, which they would recite. This became ...

Continental Europe is home to four microstates with populations of between 30,000 and 80,000 people: Andorra, on the border ...

Before we embarked on Bridgnorth's ghost tour, a pub worker remarked the town was 'full of ghosts' so we knew it would be ...

The medieval cemetery where the vessel was found dates to the Migration Period of European history. On the island of Great Britain, this era was characterized by the decline of Roman rule (around ...

Most people don’t get excited about intestinal parasite eggs preserved in 500-year-old human feces. But Marissa Ledger isn't like most people.