How did Gothic art influence the modernists? An exhibition in Norway explores how artists like Dürer and Hans Holbein's ...

First, researchers turned to an existing catalogue of Benedictine colophons, reviewing all 23,774 entries for linguistic ...

New research suggests that women were the scribes of at least 1.1 percent of manuscripts in the Latin West between 400 and 1500 C.E.

Lazio have work to do in the second leg of their Europa League quarter-final tie against Bodo/Glimt, as a Ulrik Saltnes ...

Arabian heights - with markets, mosques and island magic, Dave Monk finds places to worship on a Persian Gulf cruise, taking ...

Genealogical and genetic ancestors aren’t the same thing. A DNA match − or a lack of one − may not tell you what you imagine ...

Hard rock and heavy metal have long had a love affair with the Vikings. Led Zeppelin arguably kicked the whole thing off with Immigrant Song in 1970, singer Robert Plant memorably wailing, ‘ Valhalla, ...

The Spanish Queen stepped out sporting one particularly significant piece of jewellery – that could hint at the state of her ...