Castles and fortresses often rise from strategic, commanding positions when standing alone or integrated into urban and rural ...

Created in the Grotesque style, the 16th-century images—revealed by renovations at a lodge in England—mimic historic textile ...

A study of 16 Medieval manuscripts in Clairvaux Abbey in France found they were bound in a surprising material: sealskin.

Historians were surprised when analyses revealed Catholic monks used pinniped hides for the protective outer layer on some manuscripts, rather than skins from the local boars and deer ...

An international team of archaeologists, bioinformatic specialists, and historians has discovered that many medieval books ...

In celebration of the Yale Center for British Art’s reopening following a major conservation project and gallery ...

The recycled buildings of Rome, long dismissed by architects, are getting a reappraisal as a model for how to reduce waste ...

A fragile 13th century manuscript fragment, hidden in plain sight as the binding of a 16th-century archival register, has been discovered in Cambridge and revealed to contain rare medieval stories of ...

In an increasingly polarised world, the arts and humanities play a key role in sustaining democracy. They foster critical thinking, open dialogue, emotional intelligence and understanding across ...

Darkest Dungeon 2 brings back the difficulty and grind of its predecessor with a revamped art style and cosmic horror ...