Among the 2,483 objects recovered, researchers catalogued 226 human made artifacts including a thirteenth century esparto ...

Archaeologists in Spain discovered medieval artifacts in bearded vulture nests, including a complete 13th-century esparto ...

Life in many medieval towns revolved around constructing a cathedral, a massive undertaking that took generations of work by everyone from artists and architects to prisoners of war. Work in ...

St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Peter confute heretics in a 1369 fresco by Andrea Bonaiuto in Florence's Spanish Chapel. Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images ‘The Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas,’ by Benozzo ...

The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated in 1095 by the Roman Catholic Church. They continued, in various forms, for centuries. The most well-known Crusades took place between 1095 and ...

Catharism, a medieval offshoot of Gnostic Christianity, burned through the Catholic landscape of 13th-century Europe as swiftly as a plague. To the Catholic Church, it was very nearly as welcome. By ...

The four beautiful, cultured and clever daughters of the Count and Countess of Provence made illustrious marriages and lived at the epicenter of political power and intrigue in 13th-century Europe.

Auberge Resorts Collection continues its expansion into Europe with this week’s announcement that it will assume management of the sumptuous Domaine des Etangs. Situated in the French countryside ...

Some years ago, I was rushing past the treasures of the Louvre in Paris, on the way to the "Mona Lisa," when a painting stopped me in my tracks. Massive and unusually elongated, "The Triumph of St.