Natural disasters shaped life in the Middle Ages in powerful ways. In this video, we look at how events like floods, famines, ...

Yet it was frequently discussed in a language that is more resonant of the Middle Ages than the scientific laboratory.

Imagine the transformative impact of introducing modern technology to societies living in the Middle Ages.

We will look closely at paradigm-changing innovations and their economic effects from, for example, the introduction of the heavy plough, the clock and the printing press in the Middle Ages to more ...

New research findings reveal: some children in early medieval Bavaria were breastfed for much longer periods than today. Many early Bavarians buried around 500 AD originate from other geographical ...

What life in medieval Europe was really like Did people bathe? Did everyone believe the Earth was flat? What you think you know about the “Dark Ages” is probably wrong.

The Middle Ages have a very bad reputation. Here's what this period of history was really like.

Is everything you assumed about the Middle Ages wrong? There was more to the period than violence, superstition and ignorance, argues a new book ...