Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have been pouring into the medieval hilltop town of Assisi in Italy to venerate the ...

Carlo Acutis will become the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint at a solemn canonization Mass on April 27 in St.

The Renaissance artist’s frescoes in Orvieto, Italy’s San Brizio Chapel comprise dynamic, monumental and fiercely realistic ...

Allen Lane has signed Florence Scott’s “bold and original” history of Medieval queenship, Monarchia: A New History of the ...

Aethelred failed to prepare for the Viking raids and invasions that would later bring Cnut to the throne of England, forging ...

Unikkaaqtuat” sheds substantial light on a tradition that took form among people who were dispersed thinly and widely across ...

The Telegraph and Argus published a number of death notices last week, as follows.

The climate of thinking, the Zeitgeist, can seriously limit a country. The story of Australian democracy began in the 1850s, ...

Świętosława, the daughter of Poland’s first historical ruler, Duke Mieszko I, was the mother of Danish King Canute the Great (985-1035) who came to rule a North Sea empire comprising Denmark, England, ...

A much loved husband of Iris, a dearly loved dad of Cherol, Yvonne, Canute, Neil ... Grandad to Aaron and Macaulay, a treasured Great Grandad of Logan, Alexah, Theo and Arlo, a dear stepdad ...

"The Last Kingdom" follows Uhtred of Bebbanburg, a young Saxon who is kidnapped and raised by Vikings before working for Alfred the Great and ultimately seizing control of the lands that once belonged ...