This city once nurtured towering Jewish thinkers like Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel — known as the Maharal — a spiritual ...

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The stone tells a dramatic story about Scandinavian explorers in Minnesota. The translated message states: “8 Goths [Swedes] ...

The discovery of rare music inside a medieval book has brought the sound of monks back to an abbey for the first time in 500 years. A performance of the “plaintive” music will be held in August at ...

Yet it was frequently discussed in a language that is more resonant of the Middle Ages than the scientific laboratory.

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A new exhibition in Dublin showcases historic manuscripts written in Irish monasteries. The show also features medieval ...

Shakespeare maintained a wide-ranging interest in different forms of “natural philosophy,” which combined what we now call science, philosophy, and religion. Drawing on the history of science, the ...

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More information: Dauvit Broun, Scottish Independence and British Identity: An Unusual Late-medieval Perspective, Journal of Scottish Historical Studies (2025). DOI: 10.3366/jshs.2025.0386 ...

Medieval scholars dismissed this job as lacking both dignity and intellect. Arming Squire Credit: iStockphoto Becoming a knight started with the work of a servant.