In collaboration with Dr. Jackson Crawford, this original research project explores the early medieval origins of firearms in Europe through newly examined Icelandic manuscripts. Evidence from the ...

LONDON — Like examining the growth rings of an ancient tree, scientists have developed a new way to analyze the “twigs” of human genetic family trees, revealing previously hidden patterns of migration ...

Worship in Medieval and Early Modern Europe offers readers a chance to understand better the societal and confessional norms that motivated late medieval and early modern Christians to maintain or ...

Researchers have unraveled the mysterious origins of silver that was used to make coins during the early medieval period in Europe. For a study published in the journal Antiquity, a team of experts ...

Sometime around 660 CE, silver coinage replaced gold as the dominant form of currency in northwest Europe. But what was the source of all that silver? According to a recent paper published in the ...

This is the annual Barber Lecture in Humanities with Dr. Courtney Wells of Hobart and William Smith Colleges presenting his new research on language and literature intersections in medieval and early ...

We see a large burial that's been excavated in a dirt area. There is a skeleton at the bottom. Archaeologists in Germany have discovered the grave of a Frankish warrior who was buried with his weapons ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—A historian of medieval England specializing in economic and monetary history has won Western Michigan University's Otto Gründler Book Prize. Dr. Rory Naismith, professor of early ...