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The most famous Scottish cannibal was Sawney Bean, a 16th-century man who, with his wife and children, supposedly killed and ate travellers to the Ayrshire coast.
Morgan’s powers fall under two key branches of natural philosophy: the science of medicine, and the science of necromancy according to physics.
Warm rooms were often very unusual in medieval times.
Modern researchers know about the cuckoo’s cross-species brood parasitism – but one Roman emperor observed this more than 700 years ago.
Medieval teeth reveal how childhood hunger echoes through generations.
Medieval people would have interacted with the embroidered players, giving them voice and enabling them to join the conversation.
There are at least 34 documented stories of transgender saints’ lives, three of which had widespread popularity in medieval Europe.
In medieval Europe, vigilantism was rampant. Though there were rudimentary efforts to develop legal frameworks, the precepts could be bizarre, with justice sporadic and unevenly applied.
Only five witches were executed in Wales, while thousands were sentenced to death in Scotland and England.
The genetic study challenges previous theories about the origins and culture of the Picts.
The Newport medieval ship is the most complete section of a 15th-century European vessel discovered to date.
A German town needed to relocate a medieval graveyard to build a parking garage. A positive side effect: Scientists got to sequence the DNA of Ashkenazi Jews who lived more than 600 years ago.
Despite being cloistered in relative luxury, the holy men suffered from worms far more frequently than the general population.
The Black Death evolved around Kyrgyzstan, according to new research.
Churches’ struggles to respond to the plague and constant warfare in the 14th and 15th centuries helped shape the kinds of Christianity in the world today.
Eating codlings and electing bean kings were all part of the medieval Christmas and New Year festivities.
One citation at a time, a professor and her students are crafting a more complete picture of Dante’s women.
The Church of England’s apology for medieval antisemitism is welcome. But there is something missing.
The English paid a high price for medieval fashion: in bunions and broken bones.
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Professor in High Medieval History, Durham University
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Senior Research Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge
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PhD Candidate in Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge
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Associate Professor of Population and Statistical Genetics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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