Amateur detectorists exploring the historic fields near Gietrzwałd, Poland, have unearthed a remarkably rare medieval flail weapon known as a kiścień - only the fourth such artifact ever recorded in ...

Introduced in the wake of the Norman Conquest, the murdrum fine was meant to protect Norman settlers from revenge killings.

Horses are instinctively wired to run from danger. So how did medieval armies train them to thunder towards enemy lines ...

Each May, some 3,000 people descend on Kalamazoo, Mich., for the International Congress on Medieval Studies, which brings together academics and enthusiasts for four days of scholarly panels, ...

A stained-glass window depicting Empress Matilda's voyage from England to Normandy Andreas F. Borchert via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 In three decades of teaching medieval European history, ...

Miri Rubin does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Olivia Swarthout has brought medieval art to the masses (460K Twitter followers and counting) but she’s not formally trained in medieval history or art. A self-described “proprietress of weird ...

The country’s distinct history is revealed in banknotes, coins and other monetary objects, says the Smithsonian’s curator of numismatics Ellen Feingold - Curator, National Numismatic Collection The ...

Medieval History of Bihar is commemorated by the foreign invasion and dynasty that ruined the glory of Bihar. The invasion and war of succession made the darkest age of all times because the invasion ...