She argues in her monumental new book Islamesque (2024) that in early medieval Europe the world of construction and decorative crafts was “dominated by Muslims”. The claim might sound absurd ...

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 ...

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THE spiritual writer Richard Rolle is commemorated in the Common Worship calendar on 20 January. He began and ended life in ...

Polo was far from the first European to travel to medieval China ... a teenager and spent the most formative middle years of his life in Asia. It's there in Asia that he developed his way of ...

While the princess was often powerless, the small snippets of evidence that we have about her present the life of a young woman with the resolve and tenacity to survive and thrive. She’s one of the ...

(What life in medieval Europe was really like.) Keeping powerAt 82 feet tall, the square keep of Arques rises over the countryside near Carcassonne in southwest France. The castle was built in the ...

(Zoltán Faur/Luca Kis) As Tihanyi explained to Sandee Oster at Phys.org, men in medieval European cultures were typically buried with functional items ... Tihanyi and his team also identified signs of ...

Continental Europe is home to four microstates with populations ... These states have existed since the medieval period and their tiny size has enabled them to develop and maintain singular ...

One Portuguese town has been labelled as a 'fairytale' destination thanks to its enchanting gardens and colourful castles.

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 ...

The English carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is a cumulative song, in which each verse builds upon the last, detailing the increasingly elaborate gifts that a "true love" has given to the singer.