Century England, a dark-skinned saint with a promiscuous past became a boundary-breaking cultural and religious icon. A new ...

Most people in medieval society lived in villages, there were few large towns. The majority of people were peasants, who worked on the land. There were a range of jobs and trades in towns and ...

It's described as one of the earliest forms of soccer with one ancient rule telling players not to murder each other.

Herstmonceux Castle, near Hastings in the south of England, is the setting ... This is then followed by a huge medieval battle, when more than 500 people from re-enactment groups around Europe ...

This volume explores the will-making process in late medieval England for all levels of society. Wills are some of the most studied records of the late Middle Ages and capture the evidence of what ...

but red squirrels may have spread leprosy to people in medieval England, according to a new study. Researchers have ...

In medieval England, women in labor wrapped birth girdles around their abdomens to protect themselves and their unborn children. These parchment or paper rolls replicated the “girdle relics” of the ...

That tells us medieval people in England were open to models of sanctity that weren't white, young and obedient. "One of the key things about Mary is that she resists this almost objectification ...