New research finds that the diversity of plants in parts of medieval Europe peaked in the centuries before the Black Death, at a time when small farms and pastures existed alongside grasslands and ...

What did European cities look like two centuries after the fall of the Western Roman Empire? In 700 AD, Europe was a very different world from the age of Rome. Many once-great Roman cities had ...

In medieval Denmark, people could pay for more prestigious graves closer to the church — a sign of wealth and status. But ...