The area of the medieval town showing locations of excavations (the excavation extents are derived from the Nottingham City Historic Environment Record, maintained by Nottingham City Council). Credit: ...

Lucile Gauvain uses medieval imagery of death, chaos and revelry to parse contemporary life. Courtesy of artist and House of ...

Researchers have unearthed strong evidence of thousands of Black Death victims in a first-of-its-kind mass grave at a medieval village outside Germany. The find marks the first systematically ...

When a Medieval death occurred in England an official appointed by the crown and known as the Coroner was responsible for finding out what had happened. By the 13th century there were four coroners in ...

For centuries, the prevailing explanation of how the Black Death entered medieval Europe was a simple narrative of biological warfare. During a siege of Caffa, a Genoa-controlled port city on the ...

Late medieval Europe entered a period marked by climatic fluctuations that weakened agricultural stability and placed growing pressure on the food systems that supported expanding populations. Cooler ...