"You have to keep beating it for longer," my grandmother instructed me. "It isn't pale yet. It's still too yellow." ...

What did it really mean to be educated in the Middle Ages? In this video, we explore how learning was structured, who had ...

Emerging in monasteries and convents, apothecaries were later incorporated into guilds to serve the general public. But the ...

In the Middle Ages European artists and theologians shaped a new terrifying vision of Satan and the punishments awaiting sinners in his realm. Seated on a fiery throne, Satan devours a damned soul in ...

Step into the shadowy world of medieval espionage as we uncover the mysterious life of a secret agent in the Middle Ages.

Universidad CEU San Pablo provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation ES. “People have the right to live as they wish, we are no longer in the Middle Ages.” This statement, made ...

In some ways, the subject of the Getty Center’s exhibition “Play and Pastimes in the Middle Ages” might seem a bit peculiar. Play and pastimes in the world of the Black Death? In towns where sewage ...

"A black cat crossing your path brings bad luck," says the old adage. The tradition of the "witches' familiar," a small animal assistant, often a black cat, might have been the origin for the belief.

The question of why, at the turn of the 20th century, modern art flourished in Europe has long been one of art history’s most intriguing. Was it exposure to non-Western influences? The advent of the ...

Last week, an early medieval burial site—since characterized as one of the most significant ever excavated in the UK—was discovered. Buried alongside its inhabitant from the Middle Ages was an ...