This included the election of a boy bishop who could make laws, dress up in vestments and even declare holidays - like an ...

Researchers give medieval Cambridge residents the 'Richard III treatment' to reveal hard-knock lives of those in the city during its famous university's early years. Study of over 400 remains from a ...

For those who love medieval architecture, England has always been a great spot, but this particular town in Cheshire seems to ...

Medieval Murder Maps is an interactive website that gives insight into how people were killed in medieval London, York and Oxford. We are going to travel back in time now to medieval England, thanks ...

Oxford was the murder capital of late-medieval England, with the city’s male university population being the main catalyst for violence, according to new research. The homicide rate in the city was ...

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When we think of medieval friars, we may well picture Robin Hood’s jolly Friar Tuck, known for his rotund figure and love of food and drink. But it turns out some of these monks were full of more than ...

A rare strip of parchment more than 10 feet (3 meters) long and adorned with Christian emblems shows chemical traces of its use by women in medieval England as a magical amulet to protect them during ...

*Originally published on December 7, 2021. Sexual assault victims in Medieval England faced similar challenges as they would today, says a researcher who studied 28 rape trials from 800 years ago. "We ...

Evidence from archaeological sites in the medieval English city of Winchester shows that English red squirrels once served as an important host for Mycobacterium leprae strains that caused leprosy in ...