Medieval Europe wasn’t just about castles and cathedrals – it was also home to some of the most ambitious mega projects in history. In this video, we explore the grand visions that pushed the limits ...

Construction on the Varberg Tunnel in Sweden—part of a modern railway project—has resulted in an unexpected bounty of ...

One of the most important surviving medieval manuscripts written in Irish goes on public display after a two-year long ...

Written in Old and Middle Irish in the 12th century, the Book of Leinster, or Leabhar Laighean, is an important source of ...

Since March, every Monday evening, members of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) have been gathering at The Well.

Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a period of massive social change, burgeoning nationalism, international conflict, terrible natural disaster, climate change, rebellion ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Pontificia Fonderia Marinelli has been making bells since the Middle Ages. Their instruments ring out from iconic places like the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Vatican.

An illustration of a Medieval doctors examining the abdomen of a patient. There were very few doctors in the Middle Ages. Training to be a doctor could take years of study and, at the time ...