The July 7 event at Canterbury is evidence of a growing interest in shrines, saints and relics in the Church of England, ...

One of Canterbury’s most colourful and spectacular festivals will take to the streets on Saturday with the return of the Medieval Pageant. This year is the 10th anniversary of the popular event, which ...

Centuries ago, the site was home to St. Leonard's Hospital, a sprawling monastic facility that provided care to sick individuals and supplied meals for prisoners at nearby York Castle ...

The word Gothic consistently suggests multiple meanings. From its ties to the Germanic Goths who, in their migrations across central Europe, Italy and Iberia, contributed to the fall of the Roman ...

According to the cathedral's website, after the invasion of 1066, the Normans built a new cathedral (of which only a few traces remain), and a century or so later, that was rebuilt in the Gothic ...

Just a stone's throw from Birmingham lies a city rich in history and charm, where ancient architecture meets the lively pulse ...

Ela Fitzpayne was a powerful aristocrat who offended the Archbishop of Canterbury and was ordered to do a "walk of shame." ...

In Oxford alone, homicide rates during the late medieval period were about 60 to 75 deaths per 100,000 people, a rate about 50 times higher than what is currently seen in English cities.

The Medieval Murder Maps project “provides fascinating insights into the ways in which people carried out violence, but also into the ways in which people worried about it,” Skoda said.

Researchers cite new evidence of how a medieval British noblewoman may have plotted to exact revenge and help kill her former lover, a priest, nearly 700 years ago.

Retropolis Just how bloody was medieval England? A ‘murder map’ holds some surprises. The University of Cambridge project reveals sky-high homicide rates in medieval London, York and Oxford ...