Some scenic cities feel like you've walked onto the set of the latest European romance movie. Here are 12 to add to your ...

In parts of medieval Europe, animals accused of crimes were tried in formal court proceedings. Pigs, bulls, and even insects could face charges ranging from murder to crop destruction. Secular courts ...

The Cathars were peaceful dualist Christians who rejected church wealth, violence, and hierarchy. They allowed women to ...

This 'beautiful' deserted medieval village in the Yorkshire Wolds is probably Europe’s best-known and the largest in Britain ...

And in Europe, the medieval era was particularly disease-ridden. But what happened when money and social stigma collided? To ...

A 700-year-old fresco discovered on the wall of a convent church in northern Italy suggests that luxurious Islamic tents were used to cover altars in medieval European churches, as Sarah Birnbaum ...

Leprosy carried powerful stigma in medieval Europe, but new skeletal evidence from Danish cemeteries suggests the sick were not always pushed aside in death. In medieval Denmark, burial location ...

You don’t get that in old towns in Italy or Croatia, or anywhere on the continent below an imaginary line that separates ...

Launched in 2012, the popular two-nation Alpe Adria connects existing bike paths with redeveloped long-abandoned railway ...

Explore the Origins of medieval universities, their academic structure, curriculum, governance model and other important details.

There's no shortage of reasons to book a flight to Europe. The cobblestone streets, ancient ruins, Renaissance art, centuries-old castles, and sheer variety of landscapes packed into a relatively ...