The current library hall was completed in 1767, designed by architect Peter Thumb in an ornate Rococo style. Inside, walnut ...

Servers bring out dishes of lentil soup during the recreation of a medieval-style harvest feast staged by Archaeology Now Houston. As many of us prepare this week to sit down for our Thanksgiving ...

Feudalism dominated medieval Europe for centuries - but by the end of the Middle Ages, it had begun to unravel. In this episode, Kings and Generals explores the multifaceted collapse of feudal society ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Richard II became king of England when he was 10 and was deposed at 32. British Library/Wikimedia Commons My students tend to ...

The rack became one of the most infamous instruments of torture in medieval Europe, used to extract confessions in cases of ...

Sebastian Jäger, "Wound Man" (c. 1580), ink and paint on parchment, painted in Vienna, Austria, held in UCLA's Louise M. Darling Medical Library, MS Benjamin 8, fol. IVv (photo by Jack Hartnell) Even ...

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 ...

Table Fountain (c. 1320–40), gilt-silver, translucent enamel on basse-taille, opaque enamel (all photos courtesy Cleveland Museum of Art unless otherwise noted) Countless examples of a curious device ...

(THE CONVERSATION) My students tend to imagine the Middle Ages as something like the “Kingdom Come” or “Total War” video games: an age of utter political chaos, when swords and daggers ruled, and ...