March is National Women’s History Month, and there are many things people do to commemorate that. During the Middle Ages in ...

Venice used new art commissions to help its citizens understand the changing nature of power and quell public anxiety during ...

As Lille Catholic University begins its 150th anniversary celebrations, La Croix looks at the history and unique identity of ...

The objects are indeed real – they are the centuries-old skeletal, human remains exhumed from Rome's underground catacombs.

Even though the Empress Dowager Ling’s rule was problematic and short — resulting in her assassination — she laid the foundation for other, more successful female rulers across medieval East Asia.

Easter is linked to a number of traditions, some religious, others not. Today, people celebrate the holiday with brunches, candy, and pastel outfits (and in some cases, fancy hats and bonnets). But ...

The eventful Avignon Papacy included three different popes ruling at the same time and an Irish king complaining about the ...

Discover the story behind the abandoned village of Maes y Mynydd in Pembrokeshire which has been unoccupied for more than 100 years.

The vast majority of female scribes remain anonymous. Many likely worked in convents or lay workshops, their contributions ...

Cleric ‘belongs to the company of the very greatest down all the ages who have adorned the historic name of Armagh’ ...

therefore allowing the Medieval bridge to function until the latter was opened in 1831. Once this was completed, the old bridge was quickly dismantled and lost into the annals of history. Or so most ...

Welcume, loveli folke! Heere is thyn wey to dresse as a ladye reverant and faire.