Only eight years earlier, Henry IV had deposed his cousin Richard II, who died in custody soon afterwards. Richard’s rule was ...

Alexandre Dumas, the renowned author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, lived a life nearly as eventful ...

The medieval Mongol archive, dating from the 13th century, had a profound influence on French maps and exploration.

Much as the golem could be created only through purity of spirit and thought, we must develop contemporary machines for ...

MIT history professor to lecture on “rapina” Eric J. Goldberg, Ph.D., professor of history at Massachusetts Institute of ...

Many other respected sets of laws have been highly impractical in quite puzzling ways, including those developed by the ...

We’ve picked some of our favorite medieval games available to play now, from the realistic to the preposterous. This list isn’t necessarily ranked in any particular order. All of them are ...

The Centre for Medieval Studies is excited to be welcoming Dr Eleanor Janega to speak on “Medieval Sex and the Law”.

The University of Connecticut board of trustees met yesterday and addressed closing majors, concerns over federal directives and another year of high applications.

The Middle Ages, with its crippling poverty and lack of law and order, was the perfect time for unscrupulous men to turn to a life of crime and roam around the countryside causing untold trouble.