Parenting during the medieval period, which spanned roughly from the 5th to the late 15th century, differed markedly from contemporary child-rearing practices, shaped by the distinct societal, ...

In the late 19th century, artists were going goth. Works like Vincent van Gogh’s Head of a Skeleton With a Burning Cigarette (1886), Edvard Munch’s By the Deathbed (1893) and Hugo Simberg’s The Garden ...

Ladies-in-Waiting in Medieval England examines female attendants who served queens and aristocratic women during the late medieval period. Using a unique set of primary source based statistics, ...

From requesting cross bows to fight invaders in Norfolk, to a southern Italian cosmetic recipe for removing hair dye: a ...

More than 500 attendees, virtual and in-person, congregated at the Rome Center to learn about the largely “silent” history of early medieval Judaism in the West.

Acclaimed historian Peter Stanley on how Australia writes its war histories, and our complicated relationship with memorialisation. And a new exhibition at the British library illuminates the lives of ...

Caroline Walker Bynum, "Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond" (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007). David Burr, "The Spiritual Franciscans: From ...

Last of all, the sheer vertical cliffs provide a bird’s-eye view of the endless paddy field, which surrounds the rocky region ...

Hale, Matthew Raymond, Graham and Wright, Catherine 2018. List of publications on the economic and social history of Great Britain and Ireland published in 2017. The Economic History Review, Vol. 71, ...

From the name "draft beer" to proper glassware and pouring technique, our expert covers everything you need to know about ...

Focusing on the centuries when Italy led Western art and literature, i.e. the late Middle Ages and Renaissance ... and offers them an expertise in Italian culture in the medieval humanistic and early ...