The remarkably preserved body of an early modern saint, St. Teresa of Avila, has been exhibited in Spain months after being ...

The ring dates to the 15th or 16th century, making it at least 400 years old. Photo from the Wawel Royal Castle Centuries ago, signet rings were worn by numerous individuals, including civic ...

Harvard University for decades assumed it had a cheap copy of the Magna Carta in its collection, a stained and faded document ...

Two British academics discovered that a “copy” of the medieval text, held in Harvard Law School’s library for 80 years, is ...

He writes about the politics of the labor movement, work, and the crisis of capitalism at the turn of the 20th century. He is the author of the book When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to ...

The 21st century pharmaceutical and biotech sector ... systems such as the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) in Europe created a much more structured system, both for prescription of drugs ...

Professional traveller as he was, Moryson had the same problem with German beds in the early seventeenth century as I have in the late twentieth ... flights of fancy as Travel in Early Modem Europe.