As a young backpacker, I first fell in love with the picturesque village of Rothenburg, in Germany’s Franconian heartland. At that time, the town still fed a few farm animals within its medieval walls ...

Albany native Justin Willson has accepted a position as assistant professor of Medieval Worlds in the Department of the History of Art at Yale University.

Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed to page through the Pearl-Manuscript, a singular bound volume from the 1300s containing the earliest versions of the masterly medieval poem "Pearl ...

“It looks like it will die,” Nishibori said of the cherry tree, “but it’s not going to die. The next spring, there will be ...

Boats leave Seahouses for Inner Farne, with its medieval chapel dedicated to the ... first president of the USA, had English roots stretching back to an attractive manor house, Washington Old Hall. A ...

Periods including “fish emerge from the ice” in mid-February and “rainbows hide” in late November offer a framework for ...

Hnefatafl (pronounced ‘neva tapl’) means ‘The King’s Table’ in Old Norse and is a game of tactics and skill. Archaeological evidence for this Viking board game has been found in warrior burials, at ...

While firmly part of Italy for more than a century, influences from that rich and complicated past can be seen in the ...

I desired dragons with a profound desire,” fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien once said about his childhood imagination, ...

The recycled buildings of Rome, long dismissed by architects, are getting a reappraisal as a model for how to reduce waste while creating something fresh.

Part of a 13th century manuscript containing rare stories about Merlin and King Arthur has been discovered at Cambridge ...