The Catholic Church wanted to wrest political power from the feudal lords and defended a more repressive ... the religious ...

A historic site in southwest England associated with King Arthur is not from the medieval period, as experts had long thought ...

Parenting during the medieval period, which spanned roughly from the 5th to the late 15th century, differed markedly from contemporary child-rearing practices, shaped by the distinct societal, ...

"Given that the monument is now 4,000 years older than most people thought, we now need to consider the monument within the ...

On a misty moor in Cornwall, a monument long thought to date to the medieval period has turned out to be more than meets the ...

Trumpism is merely a cult of personality, and Trumpworld is an untidy amalgam of hero-worshippers, opportunists, zealots, ...

There are times when videogames mirror real life. In Mirthwood's case, it's the fact that I'm constantly hungry. A bread chunk barely lasts me a few axe thwacks at a tree, and a baked apple carries me ...

Must buying fermented grape juice resemble a course in medieval theology? The appeal of alcoholic drinks ... The result is that the wine world is both a jungle of origins – and stiff with hierarchy.

Well-man skeleton (Åge Hojem NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet) The elusive medieval man’s bones were first found in the well at Sverresborg Castle, but researchers lacked the tools at the time to do much ...

Heads they won, tails the peasants lost! Ms Reeves is effectively reinventing this feudal, regressive system whereby one class of person is taxed heavily and another is not only partly exempted ...

A study of a remarkable medieval skeleton found in a well at a castle in Norway has helped to corroborate events detailed in an 800-year-old Norse saga. Michael Martin, one of the authors of the ...