This book invites you to compare two stories about shapeshifting. The first is the 12th-century tale Yonec, while the second is The Beauty and the Beast, which was written in the 18th century.

Richard Utz visits Marc Bloch’s memorial at the Panthéon in Paris and reflects on the medieval historian’s legacy as a scholar, soldier and Resistance fighter.

(Millions of people... but why?) In 2015 the great medievalist, lawyer and judge, Jonathan, Lord Sumption, began a lecture on Magna Carta with this iconic line:

A rare 14th-century gold seal ring discovered by metal detectorists in England could have belonged to Matilda of Lancaster, Countess of Ulster.

Archaeologists at Govan Old in Glasgow have discovered evidence of an early medieval jewellery workshop, including an unfinished shale finger ring.

Archaeologists at Loburg Castle in Germany have uncovered early medieval fortifications, pottery and other finds dating back to the 9th and 10th centuries.

A new study finds that medieval monasteries helped drive the rise of England’s wool economy, as sheep farming expanded from the seventh century.

Six lost pages from Nicholas Love’s medieval bestseller Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ have been rediscovered and linked to a manuscript at Yale.

Gibraltar’s medieval Moorish Castle reopens following major restoration work, offering visitors new access to its 14th-century Tower of Homage.

Researchers in Germany have reconstructed 26 medieval paintings hidden for more than 650 years using multispectral imaging and 3D modelling.

What can castles tell us about the people who built them and the societies they sought to defend? Nicholas Morton reviews Dan Jones’…

Seventeen medieval manuscript fragments reveal what people were reading in Guernsey, from Ovid and Mandeville to French literature and biblical texts.