How did Gothic art influence the modernists? An exhibition in Norway explores how artists like Dürer and Hans Holbein's ...

Two major Viking Age museums are the highlight of a visit to Ribe, the oldest town in Denmark and a must-visit on any tour of ...

Armored men and women representing Texas and Oklahoma gather in Mississippi each year to take on similar fighters ...

Thanks to a 12th-century Danish historian, we have so many details about the Viking era to consume. Saxo Grammaticus was […] ...

A team at the University of Bergen in Norway have determined that a minimum of 1.1% of medieval manuscripts from around 800 ...

In sixth-century China, a woman known to history as Empress Dowager Ling ruled over an empire called the Northern Wei.

Medieval Japanese culture, influenced by Confucian ideals, imposed strict gender roles. While Japanese women had more power ...

A detail of Izsys Archer's mixed-media installation ... and altered details of images from medieval books including “The Fates of Famous Men and Women.” (He painted the pieces on goatskin ...

The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a ...

ESPN's Bracketology efforts are focused on projecting the NCAA tournament field just as we expect the NCAA Division I basketball committee to select the field in March. ESPN bracketologist Charlie ...

Not surprisingly for a woman who once shared a bed with Jeffrey Archer, Sarah Symonds doesn't have a lot to recommend from her time as a mistress. Much of it was spent in isolation, alone in a ...

Megan Archer gets her car ready. The cars themselves, often representing the pinnacle of engineering and design, push drivers to their absolute limits. Yet, despite the challenges, more women are ...