Chess spread quickly through feudal Europe, far from its roots in sixth-century India. Here’s how the game of strategy kept ...

Medieval Studies has a choice to make. Just this week controversy erupted over the largest annual academic conference devoted to the study of the Middle Ages in all of its forms - the International ...

Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the history of medieval period, Christianity and Roman Empire ...

A few weeks ago, the New York Times ran the piece "A Breakthrough in C-Section History," detailing a recent article in a medical journal about Beatrice of Bourbon's 1337 delivery. But medical ...

Visitors often include a visit to San Marino as part of a wider trip to Italy, but while curiosity is often what lures people ...

Getting some air: The largest remaining game of "no rules" medieval football, played every year in Ashbourne, England. Credit: Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images The ritual game, eagerly awaited all year ...

Compass-drawn Hexfoil or “Daisy Wheel” designs from English medieval churches (all images courtesy Matthew Champion and Ebury Press) Champion writes that “the medieval church was a far more ...

Bechbretha or bee-judgments were the part of Brehon law which set out the rights and responsibilities associated with ...