For all their hard work, peasants had a fair amount of downtime. Add up Sundays and the many holidays, and about one-third of ...

An exhibition prioritizes the expensive, silent object over the lived, functional experience of the believer.

Around midday, people usually took a break and ate their largest meal – often a soup or stew. The foods they ate could include lamb and beef, along with cheese, cabbage, onions, leeks, turnips and ...

When Tiffany Young of Girls' Generation — the girl group under SM Entertainment that essentially wrote the K-pop playbook in ...

It's time to learn what happened to the contents of chamber pots in the Dark Ages and whether Europeans really considered ...

Heritage is novel because it co-opts the trappings of “critical,” pluralistic curation yet neutralizes true civic debate.

A woman walking in the Czech Republic stumbled upon more than 2,150 early medieval silver coins. Originally stored in a ceramic pot during a time of political turmoil, the coins have sat in place ...

The identity of a Roman-era individual found in southern England has finally been resolved after scientists at the Natural ...

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A mystic formed by suffering and Eucharistic adoration, Blessed Aniela Salawa embodied the Gospel truth that God chooses what ...

The life of a medieval farmer was anything but easy. In this video, we take a deep look at the daily struggles and ...

A faded label suggested the bones had been unearthed at the nearby Beachy Head cliffs sometime in the 1950s, though specific details of the original excavation had been lost to time. What followed was ...