Belief in the supernatural was a powerful force in the medieval world. Tales of restless spirits, haunted monasteries, and ...

What did people in the Middle Ages believe about ghosts and the supernatural? In this video, we dive into documented paranormal encounters from medieval times – from haunted monasteries to ...

After Rome fell, Europe spent a thousand years in its Middle Ages. Its art shows how the light of civilization flickered in monasteries and on Europe’s fringes: Christian Byzantium, Moorish ...

The church actually sponsored some of the most beautiful and radical art that emerged in the Middle Ages. A lot of these monasteries had artist studios where monks made illuminated manuscripts.

Swedish archaeologists uncovered medieval monastery ruins in Derome, thanks to a history enthusiast's research of old maps ...

The monastery libraries held copies of books ... The most common method used by doctors in the Middle Ages was bloodletting. There were two methods of bloodletting – either a patient’s vein ...

In the middle ages, men and women were often identified ... This is evident in the playful images we see of them in monasteries. For the most part, cats were quite at home in the medieval household.

One thinks of the Middle Ages as a time when peasants rarely moved more than a few miles from their huts or monks from their monasteries—when people generally, other than perhaps the well-to-do ...

As a historian of the early Middle Ages, roughly 400 to 1000 C.E., I make sense of how ... Most intellectual activities in northern Europe were taking place within monasteries, where the majority of ...

This manuscript is bound in red velvet and contains ten pilgrim songs and dances that probably would have been known by the pilgrims traveling to that monastery in the Middle Ages. Selections from ...