The world is a big place, and the scope of history is even bigger. It's pretty difficult to know every single event in ...

Continental Europe is home to four microstates with populations of between 30,000 and 80,000 people: Andorra, on the border ...

Iceland has a long and rich literary tradition. With its 380,000 inhabitants, the country has produced many great writers, ...

Investigating the lost literary history of Iceland reveals religious upheavals and clever forgeries, new research has ...

There were very few doctors in the Middle Ages. Training to be a doctor could take years of study and, at the time, there were very few universities. The main European universities in the Middle ...

The nostalgia cycle rarely rewinds this far, but some things are just timeless, like maximalist detail, slow craftsmanship and weird little guys.

In the late Middle Ages, Christianity was widespread in Europe and Christmas celebrations every December were the norm in ...

This volume investigates the ways in which people in the early Middle Ages used the past: to legitimate the present, to understand current events, and as a source of identity. Each essay examines the ...

Antiquity, Vol. 98, Issue. 397, p. 272. The extraordinary array of images included in this volume reveals the full and rich history of the Middle Ages. Exploring material objects from the European, ...