Ela Fitzpayne was a powerful aristocrat who offended the Archbishop of Canterbury and was ordered to do a "walk of shame." ...

Beetle-infested books are placed in hermetically sealed plastic sacks from which all oxygen is removed. Pannonhalma, Hungary, ...

Medieval London was a city full of life – and not all of it pleasant. In this video, we explore what it truly felt like to walk the streets of London centuries ago. From the clang of blacksmiths and ...

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — The sun was setting on a busy London street on a May evening in 1337 when a group of men approached a priest named John Forde.They surrounded him in front of a ...

In London, for instance, the most prominent homicide hot spot was Westcheap, which Eisner described as the medieval equivalent of New York’s Fifth Avenue.

But in the cramped and unforgiving streets of Medieval England, this biological edge vanished. A new study reveals that during this period, men and women had almost identical life expectancies—an ...

WH Smith will receive less-than-expected cash from the sale of its UK high street business to Hobbycraft owner Modella Capital, it said on Monday, citing reduced cash flow due to softer trading and a ...

On Monday, Oct. 28, from 5 to 6 p.m., Prof. Lauren Fogle of the History Department will be giving a lecture in Dugan 208 related to her research on Jewish conversion to Christianity in medieval ...

Lucca Comics Chief on Why the Medieval Town Named a Street After ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Co-Creators Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. Nick Vivarelli. Fri, October 25, 2024 at 1:13 PM UTC.

(CNN) — The sun was setting on a busy London street on a May evening in 1337 when a group of men approached a priest named John Forde. They surrounded him in front of a church near Old St. Paul’s ...

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — The sun was setting on a busy London street on a May evening in 1337 when a group of men approached a priest named John Forde. They surrounded him in front of a ...

The Medieval Murder Maps project collects cases of homicide and other sudden or suspicious deaths in 14th century London, Oxford and York, including the location of the killing of John Forde, a ...