What is the present-day importance of the Middle Ages? Many of the discussions we see in society today do not look any further back than a couple of generations at the most. This kind of short-term ...

The story of shortbread begins with the medieval “biscuit bread”. Any leftover dough from bread making was dried out in a low oven until it hardened into a type of rusk: the word “biscuit” means ...

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The church, now the only complete medieval church in Shrewsbury, dates from Saxon times and has beautiful additions from the twelfth century onwards. It is a main tourist attraction, the listing ...

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A landmark medieval exhibition displaying rare manuscripts will be launched at the National Museum of Ireland (NMI) today, May 29. The free exhibition, Words on the Wave: Ireland and St. Gallen in ...

The National Museum of Ireland has launched a landmark exhibition exploring early medieval Ireland and its impact on Europe, called 'Words on the Wave: Ireland and St Gallen in Early Medieval Europe'.

The case is thought to be one of the only examples of a judicial execution of a woman in medieval England in the archaeological record. “This isn’t the story of one blow, and it’s not ...

By Niki Kitsantonis Reporting from Monemvasia, Greece Carved into a massive rock, the medieval fortress town of Monemvasia rises from the Myrtoan Sea in southern Greece, its Byzantine churches and ...

Not to reenact a famous American Revolutionary War battle — but to relive the dawn of the English Renaissance with a splash of Medieval fantasy. The third annual Philadelphia Renaissance Faire capped ...

“Right now, especially with the way the world is, representing Canada is really important to us and we’re going to be out there in our medieval tabards and we’re going to have a big maple ...