For generations, a misidentified medieval manuscript was hidden in a 474-year-old English boarding school’s library. After a ...

Hawks offered women both real and symbolic means to express gender, power and status within a male-dominated world.

Join Dr Eleanor Janega in this full length History Hit TV documentary as she gets to the bottom of medieval booze and ...

A careless moment in a 15th-century workshop involving one curious cat walking across freshly inked parchment has turned into a rare time capsule of everyday medieval life. More than 500 years later, ...

The Middle Ages, usually dated from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, were a period of striking contrasts. Castles rose across Europe, knights pledged their loyalty to their owners, and entire ...