At the National Museum of Denmark stands this impeccably detailed 14th-century vessel, embodying the place of fine art and ...

Torso pieces were also found in the same region. Researchers believe they belong to statues of Artemis—goddess of hunting, ...

Discover the enchanting ancient city that once held the crown as England's capital, where houses are double the average price ...

“Medieval” has come to mean backward, uninformed, and brutal, particularly when looking at the lives of women. This does not ...

Ancient medieval flush toilet discovered in a 1,300-year-old Korean palace reveals early sanitation practices and royal ...

These reflected early medieval ecclesiastical concerns in regulating society – what was right and wrong, what could and could not be done – in terms of both violence and sexuality. For ...

“A shocking modern creation, and a truly monstrous one as well,” wrote the journalist Simon Hoggart in the introduction to the 2001 edition of AG Macdonell’s now-forgotten 1938 spoof memoir ...

Ian Hislop and Nick Newman’s The autobiography of a CAD, adapted from A G Macdonell’s 1938 novel, is a biting funny satire lampooning the political classes and the landed gentry. It’s played out on ...