The contributors explore the nature of the surviving documentation without preconceptions to show that we cannot infer changing documentary practices from patterns of survival. Throughout Late ...

Watch Ploughing Tilling Fighting: A History of Peasants Against ... Often derided and misunderstood, this four-part documentary tells the story of these people at the bottom of the social scale from ...

Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a period of massive social change, burgeoning nationalism, international conflict, terrible natural disaster, climate change, rebellion ...

Scientists were surprised to find a medieval metropolis atop mountains ... “These people weren’t the barbarian horse-riding hordes that history has often painted them as.

What was life like in medieval society? Most medieval people lived in villages, as there were few large towns in the Middle Ages. The majority of people were peasants. The Church's role in ...

I've always been a history nerd, but it wasn't until I started working at The Conversation that I really caught the medieval ...

Combining both immersion and great mechanics, these medieval-themed games are ideal for fans of simulation titles and history. Arguably, the most popular historical setting in games is the Middle ...

The section on private lives, meanwhile, adopts a more intimate approach to medieval women’s history. Prayer books, instructional texts and letters shed light on women’s bodies and health ...

Medieval Europe’s diverse regional cultures were balanced by a conscious attempt to create a unified view of the world that embraced religious and social ideals, Latin and vernacular literature, and ...

My area of expertise is the social and cultural history of the Middle Ages. In particular, I examine these topics through the lens of medieval education, tracing the lived experiences of teachers and ...

A campaign to return a 13 th century bible to its ancestral home in Salisbury Cathedral has been hailed by the Culture ...

This call for papers includes all sponsored and special sessions approved by the Program Committee for the 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies (held in a hybrid format May 8–10, 2025).