Could the Mongols have conquered Europe if not for the death of the great khan? In this documentary, we explore the military ...

Tours, 732 AD—a moment that would shape the fate of medieval Europe. As the Umayyad Caliphate expanded beyond the Pyrenees into Frankish territory, they encountered fierce resistance from Charles ...

ZDF Studios has signed on to distribute the drama-led feature documentary Knights of the North—The Baltic Crusades, which ...

SVT in Sweden, Arte in France and Germany, and ZDF Studios have joined forces on a drama-led feature doc from Manchester and ...

A new exhibition in Dublin showcases historic manuscripts written in Irish monasteries. The show also features medieval ...

Diaries written in the 16th century have helped researchers to chronicle famine, flooding and plagues in medieval Romania, shedding light on life during Europe’s Little Ice Age.

A time of innovation, philosophy, and legendary works of art: the realities of the medieval period (500 to 1500 C.E.) in Europe may surprise you. Many know the years before the Renaissance and ...

For example, one of four surviving medieval painted wood ceilings in Europe is in St Michael’s Church in Hildesheim, northern Germany. Many of the features are evidently Islamic in inspiration.

The abbey, founded in 1115 in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France, was home to one of the largest monastic libraries in medieval Europe. Some 1,450 volumes of the abbey’s extensive corpus ...