Three experts weigh in on the architectural style that defined Europe for centuries and continues to inspire buildings today ...

It came from Italy sometime in the late 14th century, when a knight called Polonus Vorstius drank wine one night before bursting into flames. The idea of a human suddenly enveloping into flames ...

The feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, celebrated on July 16, was first instituted in the late 14th century in commemoration of the approval of the rule of the Carmelite Order a hundred years earlier.

Flux used to lead here - but only if you were rich enough to own a toilet. In the late 14th century, the French word flus (meaning ‘a heavy flow’) and the Latin fluxus (which generally meant ...

"Although the camel bones have not yet been radiocarbon-dated, it is highly tempting to associate them with the 14th-century human remains ... Islamic period, as late as the Abbasid times.

The most important wall paintings in the Abbey are from the late 13th century i.e. the figure of St Faith in her chapel and the figures of Christ with St Thomas and St Christopher in the south ...