Workers renovating a fence wall near a historic Cathedral in Poland have found the remains of two medieval children, one of whom shows signs of “vampire burial”. Belief in vampirism was prevalent in ...

The margins of a medieval manuscript from a convent in Naples, Italy, are decorated with doodles of what are apparently devils, a farm animal and a person that were likely drawn by children, a new ...

Workers recently stumbled across a grisly gravesite near a historic cathedral in Chelm, Poland. While removing tree roots for an ongoing garden renovation project at the Palace of the Uniate Bishops, ...

Numerous traditions concerning the children of Adam and Eve survive in medieval Irish texts, most notably the Irish Sex Aetates Mundi, Lebor Gabála Érenn, the prose and metrical Banshenchas and the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A 15th-century book on manners, newly digitized by The British Library, is filled with rules that ...

Although billed as “a fresh look at the Middle Ages through the eyes of children”, presenter Dr Stephen Baxter had to admit the bulk of historic evidence for how medieval children lived their lives ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- All hail the queen. Medieval Times' first ever queen, Queen Dona Maria Isabella, will be visiting the Staten Island Children’s Museum for a story reading and meet and greet with ...

Let My Country Awake: Indian Revolutionaries in America and the Fight to Overthrow the British Raj ...

Apparently, nose picking is (s)not just a bad habit of modern kids. Medieval children also needed to be warned not to go digging for gold, not to mention not to hog the cheese and, of course, burp ...