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 weren’t just about castles and cathedrals – they were also home to some of the most ambitious mega projects ...

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 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 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 ...

Detail from a 10th century religious book is seen displayed at the library at Salisbury Cathedral in England. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images) Most Americans get their ideas about the Middle Ages from ...

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.

There are lots of medieval manuscripts that feature, for example, illuminations (small images) of nuns with cats, and cats frequently appear as doodles in the margins of Books of Hours. St Matthew ...

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 ...