A new exhibition at the British Library explores the public, private and spiritual lives of such figures as Joan of Arc, ...

This volume continues the series' tradition of bringing together work on clothing and textiles from across Europe ... and a semantic classification of words relating to gold in multi-lingual medieval ...

The specific issue that our research addresses is the fact that, in medieval England, as in most pre-modern societies, wages could be paid by the day, on an annual basis, or anywhere in between. Often ...

An unusual historic tradition that involves a city's sheriff testing the quality of ale with a wooden stool and an egg timer ...

Elements in England in the Early Medieval World takes an innovative, interdisciplinary view of the culture, history, literature, archaeology and legacy of England between the fifth and eleventh ...

Narrator: Most people in medieval England were farming peasants who lived ... using wooden wheels to make clothes. Children spent most of their time helping their parents with day-to-day activities.

In medieval England, women in labor wrapped birth girdles around their abdomens to protect themselves and their unborn children. These parchment or paper rolls replicated the “girdle relics” of the ...

In this innovative study, Brazil demonstrates how medieval writers use clothing to direct readers’ and spectators’ awareness to forms of embodiment. By bringing recent studies in the field of embodied ...

In medieval England, red squirrels were popular pets and their fur was widely used to trim and line clothes Humans may have caught leprosy from squirrels in medieval times, researchers say.

Bristol's importance as medieval England's second city and a major maritime port for trade and exploration makes it an excellent setting for interdisciplinary intellectual exchange. The renowned ...

Medieval pits containing bones and clothing have been uncovered under Richmond’s historic market place during resurfacing works. A team of archaeologists are currently working alongside North ...