Rupert Parker explores the French Aisne region and discovers imposing medieval cathedrals, art deco cities, a workers utopia ...

How about a trip back in time this summer? UNESCO-listed abbeys, fortified bastide villages, pilgrimage towns: these five ...

Castello di Amorosa stands proudly on a Calistoga hillside, a 13th-century Tuscan castle that seems to have been plucked from ...

WATCH: Tech-savvy art historian Andrew Tallon uses lasers to unlock the builders' secrets behind the construction of the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.

Toussaint Santicola Jones "thinks big and his music has big gestures, vivid characters and strong contrasts,” said his thesis ...

Pyrénées region in the south of France, between Toulouse and Carcassonne, lies a proud custodian of ancestral know-how and heritage. The community of Revel was conceived as a bastide, a denomination ...

An example grows in the tower's garden for visitors to test. "Hygiene in the Middle Ages" has plenty of other interesting information about how our ancestors kept themselves clean. Soap came in two ...

The Bayeux Tapestry is a remarkable example of medieval art. The embroidery piece depicts events leading up to the Norman conquest of England and spans nearly 230 feet. It is believed to have been ...

The Walters Art Museum Shines a Light On the Toxic History of Medieval Manuscripts "If Books Could Kill" reveals the deadly history of manuscript production and the impact on bookmakers’—and ...

An exhibition in Oslo considers how artists like Edvard Munch and Käthe Kollwitz embraced the expressive potential of medieval art. Marianne Stokes, Death and the Maiden (1908).

As I argue in my recent book Facing Crisis: Art as Politics in Fourteenth-Century Venice, the medieval city of Venice provides a remarkable historical example for addressing these questions ...

Many of the dragons we find in pop culture — in the popular television series Game of Thrones, for example — are based on medieval interpretations. What about those human-looking eyes? That ...