As dawn broke over a quiet village in Normandy in 1944, a beast hid among the ruins of a shattered farm, patiently awaiting ...

As the Royal Armouries Museum gets ready to celebrate 25 years of its annual International Jousting Tournament at the weekend ...

In 2022, we reported the DNA sequences of 33 medieval people buried in a Jewish cemetery in Germany. Not long after we made the data publicly available, people started comparing their own DNA with ...

Aspiring masters of the blade will soon be able to swap the comfort of their sofas for swords in "a quest for greatness". Elliot Fishers, 34, from Watton, helps run Thetford Sword Club which is ...

Last week Adolf Hitler was given by his press the title Mehrer des Deutschen Reichs (Aggrandizer of the German Empire)—a designation bestowed on medieval German emperors who enlarged the realm.

In stark contrast to the advancing technology of the twentieth century, many soldiers who were stuck in the close-corridors of trench warfare found themselves back in the medieval era. Trump ...

(JTA) — A United Nations committee designated a group of medieval Jewish buildings in ... The designation in Erfurt, a former East German city, was cause for celebration — the announcement ...

Ideas of German racial superiority went hand in hand with the glorification of medieval German chivalry and a supposed economic imperative for expansion. Germany’s growing population was ...