Several Republican-led states have restricted transgender rights: Iowa has signed a law removing civil rights protection for ...

Is loneliness a modern epidemic as we are so often told? Did people in the past suffer similar feelings of isolation?

After the devastation of the Great Plague came a wave of prosperity and innovation, not to mention the birth of the middle ...

The City of Leeds in the U.K. recently revealed a Saxon treasure: a gilded pendant from Northumbria's Christian past, ...

The medieval guise that Emily Knutsson chooses to employ works well: it’s a really fun juxtaposition, and is certainly a good ...

One of the most unifying elements of the Medieval Period was the Roman Catholic Church. All classes and ranks of people, whether that be nobles, peasants or tradesmen, were profoundly affected by the ...

Finchale Priory is built on the site of St Godric's Hermitage and its within walking distance of Durham city centre ...

Disney castles are meant to be something that's strictly in fairy tales. But there is one spot in Europe that looks like one ...

A metal detectorist surveying a field in Leeds, England recently happened upon a medieval Saxon pendant covered in gold leaf.

Harvard University has for decades assumed it only had a copy of the Magna Carta in its collection. But two British ...

The monk then sets off to tell the king of the ... belonged to the lower classes and was considered a yeoman. The medieval English ballads use this term to describe a status higher than a peasant ...

Monk consulted with medieval embroidery expert Dr. Alexandra Makin to determine ... Cara Johnson holds a B.A. in English and Creative Writing from Washington & Lee University and an M.A. in English ...