Sheffield is home to one of the largest communities of medieval archaeologists in the UK, with expertise ranging from late antiquity to the early modern period. Our research specialisms lie ...

The volume features original new work on Old Norse poetry and saga, other languages and literatures of medieval north-western Europe, and the afterlife of Old Norse in modern English literature.

Medieval Europe’s diverse regional cultures were balanced by a conscious attempt to create a unified view of the world that embraced religious and social ideals, Latin and vernacular literature, and ...

Although the art of stained glass did not reach its height until Europe's Gothic Era, we find written descriptions of it dating as ... but the technique is essentially the same as in medieval times. A ...

Trick-or-treating has a long and winding history, beginning as a tradition during a Celtic holiday in medieval Europe. The modern version of the Halloween tradition began to take shape after it ...

For centuries, the Catholic Church straddled the world of medieval Europe. Every king, queen, knight, serf and soldier lived and died within the embrace of the Catholic faith. The church was not ...

At least until an archivist took another look, setting off a yearslong project to identify and then reassemble the medieval manuscript, which someone in Tudor England had taken apart and used to ...