Eleanor of Aquitaine became one of the richest and most influential women in medieval Europe during an age dominated by kings ...

Eleanor of Aquitaine became one of the most influential women in medieval Europe, ruling as queen of both France and England.

Europe is filled with incredible medieval places that continue to preserve centuries of history and architecture. From ...

We’ve Been Getting it All Wrong Medieval Europe (roughly 500–1500 CE) is often misunderstood—thanks in part to movies, myths, and oversimplified history lessons. Life wasn’t constant chaos, and ...

Despite the deadliness of the disease, it was possible to recover from plague, and medieval chroniclers mention the ...

While in theory, a pope couldn’t be removed during the Middle Ages, late medieval Europe still found ways to challenge, ...

Yearning princesses locked away in castles, heroic knights, hawkish Vikings — fragments of medieval European stories have permeated nearly every aspect of contemporary culture, from Taylor Swift songs ...

My book Cities of Strangers: Making Lives in Medieval Europe is about the ways newcomers were received and accepted in medieval cities: how strangers became neighbours, and how calamity made them ...

Usually, when people hear the term “illuminated manuscript,” they think of enormous, leather-bound books, produced painstakingly by the hands of medieval European monks, and filled to the brim with ...

(The Conversation) — During the National Prayer Breakfast on Feb. 5, 2026, Paula White-Cain, senior adviser to the White House Office of Faith, introduced President Donald Trump as “the greatest ...

Modern European cities and medieval cities share a population-density-to-area relationship, a new paper concludes – the latest research to find regularities in human settlement patterns across space ...