This included the election of a boy bishop who could make laws, dress up in vestments and even declare holidays - like an ...

A brand new medieval village has been discovered in Suffolk, England, near the modern village of Friston in eastern England, according to Medievalists. Researchers believe that an Anglo-Saxon ...

A peculiar seventh-century hoard unearthed in the English countryside could be the result of a "ritual killing," according to archaeologists.

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Helen Fulton examines the case study of the Medieval March of Wales, a vibrant multicultural border region between Wales and ...

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Oxford was the murder capital of late-medieval England, with the city’s male university population being the main catalyst for violence, according to new research. The homicide rate in the city was ...

Living in a Gothic manor on an estate that dates back to the Middle Ages, David Hunt and his wife, Colette, are often asked about ghosts. At least one of the previous owners met a gruesome death, but ...

*Originally published on December 7, 2021. Sexual assault victims in Medieval England faced similar challenges as they would today, says a researcher who studied 28 rape trials from 800 years ago. "We ...

A rare strip of parchment more than 10 feet (3 meters) long and adorned with Christian emblems shows chemical traces of its use by women in medieval England as a magical amulet to protect them during ...