For much of the 12th century, Sweden was not yet a unified state. Regional rulers, shifting alliances and religious ...

BRIDGES don’t just span rivers, they can span the centuries too. Often some of the oldest structures in an area and usually the most ...

Pamela Narbona Jerez is executive director of the San Diego Early Music Society, which presents music concerts and outreach ...

England was never as isolated as many history books once suggested. New research shows that people moved into and across ...

The best location for a monastery was one that was close to water and wood. Many monastic chroniclers mention this.

Beneath the site of a future nuclear plant, archaeologists uncovered a sealed bundle untouched for nearly 1,000 years, ...

Learn how ancient DNA and tooth enamel are rewriting England’s medieval history and showing connections between climate ...

A groundbreaking bioarchaeological study from the Universities of Edinburgh and Cambridge has shattered long-held assumptions about medieval migration patterns into England. Rather than arriving in ...

Wind farm construction in Suffolk revealed a lost Anglo-Saxon village with 62-foot longhouses. The medieval settlement was ...

The Sanctuary Knocker on the north door of Durham Cathedral is one of the most recognisable surviving symbols of medieval sanctuary law in England. The object currently fixed to the door is a modern ...

Dreams have a funny way of staying dreams, except when they don’t, and RavenStone Castle in Harvard, Illinois is proof that sometimes fantasy becomes reality right here in the Midwest.

The combination of filigree and granulation techniques arrived in Norway during the early Middle Ages from the Byzantine Empire, partly via Carolingian goldsmithing traditions. The Carolingian period, ...