From peach pit salves to lizard shampoos, ancient remedies reveal that medieval folks were surprisingly savvy about wellness, ...

Scholars have decoded a medieval manuscript linked to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, solving a 130-year-old literary mystery.

More broadly, the sermon speaks of humility in an unusual fashion, comparing powerful, plundering men to wolves and deceitful ...

A medieval sermon packed with 'memes' and simple spelling mistakes could explain a baffling line in 'The Canterbury Tales.' ...

It turns out the Dark Ages weren't all that dark. According to new research, medieval medicine was way more sophisticated ...

Carine van Rhijn researched medieval medical texts in unexpected places: “When you start looking at manuscripts, you never know what you are going to find".

Darragh Leen A landmark medieval exhibition displaying rare manuscripts will be launched at the National Museum of Ireland (NMI) today, May 29.

Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into the binding of another book, according to experts at the Cambridge University Library in ...

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have virtually unwrapped a rare medieval manuscript describing how Merlin aided King Arthur early in his reign.

Another theory is that it is merely a late-Medieval hoax. While the debates rage on, here are five things you probably did not know about this most mysterious of manuscripts. Five scribes ...

The study of medicine and the theories behind sometimes terrifying treatments of the medieval era are laid bare in an exhibition of ancient manuscripts – many on display for the first time. Curious ...