Chess spread quickly through feudal Europe, far from its roots in sixth-century India. Here’s how the game of strategy kept ...
Medieval identity was shaped by a complex interaction of religious affiliation, social status, linguistic community and regional belonging. Far from static, individual and collective identities ...
Yearning princesses locked away in castles, heroic knights, hawkish Vikings — fragments of medieval European stories have permeated nearly every aspect of contemporary culture, from Taylor Swift songs ...
Tuomas Heikkilä, Åslaug Ommundsen, Lars Boje Mortensen and Matthew Collins have won an ERC Synergy Grant to explore medieval book culture in the CODICUM project. The project will investigate ...
(RNS) — An 800-year-old puzzle about a set of 13th-century floor tiles has added to historians’ thinking about the relationship of Europeans and Arabs at the time of the Crusades. Amanda Luyster, ...
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Was medieval Western Europe really backward?
Popular culture often paints Medieval Western Europe as a dark, backward time of ignorance, but is that accurate? This video challenges common myths, comparing European and Islamic civilizations ...
The European Research Council has awarded a € 13 million ERC Synergy grant to the MEMELAND (Molecular Ecology of Medieval European Landscapes) project that will reveal how medieval farming shaped ...
It's finally getting the spotlight it deserves.
From the ancient charm of Ptuj in Slovenia to the cobbled streets of Bruges in Belgium, the medieval towers of San Gimignano in Italy, and the baroque beauty of Zamość in Poland, there are countless ...
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