Robin Hood began as an oral tradition in the 12th Century before morphing into a heroic, family-friendly stereotype – here's ...

During the Middle Ages, theologians, scholars, and writers produced a variety of texts that attempted to classify and ...

Medieval legends claim that Pope Joan was the first and only female pope. And now, an analysis of ancient silver coins suggests that the ordained woman may have actually lived. According to legends ...

Behind the castles, knights and fantasy legends of medieval England stood a harsh world shaped by disease, brutal warfare, rigid class structures, religious control and constant struggle for survival.

King Arthur’s lasting renown is one for the books. But a statistical spotlight now shines on medieval European literature’s round table of lost and forgotten stories. An international team used a ...

Early modernists have long bragged, to the annoyance of medievalists, that their period invented such concepts as ‘the individual’ and ‘scientific rationality’. More recently, medievalists have laid ...

There is an obscure medieval legend that says once upon a time in Bethlehem, a child was born whose holiness was so great it required the slaughter of all the “sodomites” in the world. Sodomites, the ...