Perhaps one of the oddest moral panics - a fear that some evil threatens the wellbeing of society - was one that arose in medieval times. Fashionable pointy-toed shoes called poulaines were alleged to ...

London’s coroners’ rolls reveal a city where honor, weapons, and tempers made murder all too common. These five mysterious cases pull us straight into the violence of the medieval streets.

THE remains of a roughly 1,200-year-old woman found on the shores of the River Thames have exposed the brutal punishment practices of early Medieval Britain. London between 600 to 800 AD, or Lundenwic ...

CMEMS presents a James Field Willard Lecture in Medieval History, "Gilds and Things: the Making of Medieval London" with Rory Naismith for Monday, March 18th, 2019 at 5:00 PM in UMC 247. Medieval ...

There’s rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we’re running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one story that fell ...

The cesspit under the Somerset House is nearly 15 feet deep and contained almost 100 artifacts. Courtesy of MOLA Excavations at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London have revealed a nearly ...

From Geoffrey Chaucer to Thomas Becket, brutal murders - or rumours of them - rocked medieval Britain. Now, scientists have released an interactive map that shines a light on the 14th-century ...

The map, based on an analysis of of 14th century scrolls, shows Britain was up to 20 times more violent in medieval times than it is today. One man was shot with an arrow during a student street brawl ...

The Five Miracles of Christ” sold at Sotheby’s to a Christian foundation on Tuesday night, while an early Gerrit Dou led ...