For more than six centuries, a mysterious cloth known as the Shroud of Turin has stirred fascination, devotion, and heated ...
Birds of prey in medieval Britain relied far more heavily on scavenging human waste than previously thought, according to research that analyzed more than 30 ancient bird skeletons. Ancient red kites, ...
A few fragmentary bones thought to be the remains of Neanderthals actually belonged to medieval Italians, new research finds. The study is a reanalysis of a tooth, which was found in in a cave in ...
It is this question that Ayoush Lazikani – a literary scholar rather than a historian of science – sets out to address in The ...
A months-old blog post written by a respected medieval scholar, Allen J. Frantzen, has gained a second life on social media — and whipped the discipline into a frenzy. The post, entitled “How to Fight ...
In the video above, Brantley Bryant, associate professor of medieval literature at Sonoma State University, shares what he and others in his field see of the Canterbury Tales, Le Morte d’Arthur and ...
NBC 10's Gene Valicenti talks with medieval scholar Joëlle Rollo-Koster of the University of Rhode Island about the election of Pope Leo XIV. Cardinal Robert Prevost is a Chicago-born missionary who ...
Brian Catlos is this year’s recipient of the Haskins Medal for his book Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, c. 1050-1614. Catlos, professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado ...
Michael Curschmann, a professor of Germanic languages and literatures, emeritus, at Princeton University, died Oct. 7 at his home in Princeton. He was 81. Curschmann's wide-ranging scholarship on ...
Se non è vero, è ben trovato (even if it isn't true, it makes a good story)—reflects a good deal of human history.
69-year-old criminal lawyer Andrew Ekonomou, a man with a penchant for Medieval history who spends most of his time prosecuting murders, has found himself at the center of President Donald Trump's ...
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