Aug. 19 (UPI) --The remains of dozens of medieval British Augustine friars discovered by the University of Cambridge were plagued with twice the parasitic intestinal worms of the general population at ...

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In the popular imagination, “medieval” and “women” aren’t always words which go together happily. Ideas about the lives of pre-Renaissance women tend to form two hazy stereotypes: an illiterate girl ...

The first academic article I ever published was in 2007 about two medieval British theologians, Robert Grosseteste and John Duns Scotus, titled: “Light and Love: Robert Grosseteste and John Duns ...

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A Medieval English manor house with its own 13th-century chapel and a swimming pool has hit the market for £2 million (US$2.592 million). Tax records for the five-acre estate known as Fardel Manor, in ...

Ever cried out “where are all the good men?!” Or wished for the olden days of traditional courtship, when great outpourings of longing were committed to paper and ...

A new study by a Cambridge English professor explores comedic texts believed to have been written by an unknown medieval minstrel. When did Britain get its sense of humour? New evidence suggests that ...