Leuven’s historic city center features ornate guild houses, medieval architecture, and a lively public square shaped by ...

Freiburg borders the Black Forest in southwest Germany, an area known for smoking meat over wood to preserve it through the ...

On Saturday night, we went to bed after learning of the tragic attack resulting in the deaths of two students and the wounding of nine others at Brown University in Providence, R.I. We awoke on Sunday ...

I’ve been chasing European Christmas markets for years, and I need to be honest: most of them are tourist traps. Overpriced ...

England has embraced degree apprenticeship as a solution to a wide range of challenges, including high youth unemployment, spiraling student debt and rapid technological change. The programs have been ...

In Old Norse mythology, Baldr, the son of the god Odin and the goddess Frigg, was slain with a mistletoe spear. Some ...

When we think of Venetian glass, our minds leap to the blazing furnaces of Murano, to delicate filigree and the vivid colors ...

Medieval weapons in Poland's Lake Lednica linked to the country's first rulers, Mieszko I and Bolesław the Brave, were found ...

The order of the Knights Templar was officially founded in 1119 AD by a group of nine prominent knights, led by Hugues de Payens (Hugo de Paganis). Besides Payens, the other knights were recorded as ...

Contrary to popular belief, illuminated manuscripts were not exclusively made in Europe—one of the most impressive is from ...

Helen Fulton examines the case study of the Medieval March of Wales, a vibrant multicultural border region between Wales and ...

Manger scenes displayed around Christmastime usually feature an ox and an ass beside the infant Jesus. According to the ...