Oxford believed that his wife had been unfaithful to him while he was away on a European tour and (for a time, at least) seems to have doubted that he was the father of her first child. Hamlet says to ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The 41st annual “Red Mass,” a spiritual event that asks for guidance and strength during the coming ...

Without taking George Orwell’s assessment that ‘every joke being a tiny revolution’ literally, humour is always to left of the established order.

The Supreme Court cleared the way for Pennsylvania voters to submit provisional ballots as a remedy for improperly cast absentee ballots in the presidential election. A new exemption to a 1998 law ...

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But one of the most carefully examined medieval court records of the 14th century contains the voice of Eleanor Rykener, who also went by the name of John and worked as a seamstress, bartender and sex ...

A study of a remarkable medieval skeleton found in a well at a castle in Norway has helped to corroborate events detailed in an 800-year-old Norse saga. Michael Martin, one of the authors of the ...

A new analysis indicates the human remains found in a well in Norway are from a 1197 raid described in a royal history. A new scientific examination of 800-year-old human remains in Norway ...

The Sverris saga, a quasi-fictional historical account from the end of the 12th century CE, recaps the reign of the medieval Norwegian king Sverre Sigurdsson. One of the best-known passages ...

“Sure enough, he’s living on a medieval citadel,” Frachetti tells Scientific American. This second site—Tugunbulak—featured similar mounds. “We’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, this place is ...

A new exhibition at the British Library explores the public, private and spiritual lives of such figures as Joan of Arc, Christine de Pizan and Hildegard of Bingen Medieval women’s lives were ...