Scraps of medieval songs on loose pages and herbals further demonstrate how practical usage was important in medieval design. “People in the Middle Ages, as now, did not only write in the codex ...

The Middle Ages are defined as the period between the years 500 and 1500 in Europe. They're also sometimes referred to as the Dark Ages, as they were a time of political instability after the fall ...

The British Royal coat of arms belonging to the House of Plantagenet, circa 1335. | Hulton Archive/Getty Images. Many medieval representations of lions had little resemblance to the actual animals ...

The Middle Ages Modern aesthetic is both darkness and magical thinking; of the past yet also of our own imagining. Perhaps, after a shared transit through hardship, we’re all planting the seeds ...

The Getty's "Fantasy of the Middle Ages" exhibition plumbs the intersection of medieval times and pop culture, from "Harry Potter" to decades of Disney films.

Medieval manuscripts are littered with images of cats – sharing their owner’s dinner, keeping them company, and even cosplaying as nuns. Cats in the middle ages: what medieval manuscripts ...

Construction on the Varberg Tunnel in Sweden—part of a modern railway project—has resulted in an unexpected bounty of historical underwater finds: six shipwrecks spanning the Middle Ages to ...

The Light Ages Seb Falk W.W. Norton & Co., $30. A long-standing myth about medieval history is that the Middle Ages were intellectually dark. Science supposedly took a hiatus between the demise of ...