Seven times a day, for the canonical hours of matins, prime, terce, sext, none, vespers and compline, Brother Harold would ring a medieval bell and enter to sing the Psalter. He had spent hours ...

Disease and death were never far away in the late medieval world ... The other illustrations are also from the psalter section of the volume. That on folio 156v is set before Psalm 52 ('The fool said ...

An endoscopic camera was used to record images of reused medieval fragments on the inside of book bindings from the 16th and ...

Back in the Middle Ages (a.k.a. the Medieval era, approximately 476-1450 A.D.), people's daily lives were very centered around the rules laid out by the church. According to the World History ...

What are the best medieval games? Rare is a videogame that doesn’t feature at least one sword, suit of armor, or roast chicken. Still, they’re usually mixed in with bearded hermits slinging ...

The middle ages, or at least our fantasies of medieval Europe, have already stormed the gates of our collective imagination and will only continue to influence culture in the year to come.

Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a period of massive social change, burgeoning nationalism, international conflict, terrible natural disaster, climate change, rebellion ...

Narrator: In 762, the city of Baghdad was established by Al-Mansur. The centre was a perfect circle. The round city. By 814, Baghdad was the world's largest city with over one million inhabitants.

The treatment of the Jews by the medieval Church has well been called ... The Old Testament and particularly the Psalter with its constant prayers for the victory of Israel over her enemies ...