Travellers have always faced health hazards when far from home. Here’s what medieval people believed would keep them healthy.

What was life like in medieval society? Most medieval people lived in villages, as there were few large towns in the Middle Ages. The majority of people were peasants. The Church's role in ...

Medieval Europe’s diverse regional cultures were balanced by a conscious attempt to create a unified view of the world that embraced religious and social ideals, Latin and vernacular literature, and ...

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Recently, researchers excavated bones of possible holy beings nestled inside medieval figurines in Germany ... containers for storing the remains of religious personnel. According to authorities ...

The study results provide interesting new insights into the dietary practices of medieval southern France, which were affected not only by socio-economic transformations but also by religion ...

It was performed both preventatively and, in the case of some medieval religious communities, periodically as part of monastic bodily regulation and discipline. Devoting some 25 chapters of his ...