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An international team of researchers, led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), drew on readings of 12th and 13th century chronicles, along with ice core and tree ring data, to accurately date some of ...

Forgery of official documents by monks was rife across medieval Europe because of social changes and the growing importance of the written word, a new book shows. Fake documentation began to be ...

(CN) — Bubonic plague. Famine. Civil and political unrest. Faithfully documented lunar eclipses between 1100 and 1300 A.D. Besides obvious medieval timelines, all share ties to something seemingly ...

Who truly identified the regular return of Halley's Comet? A common misconception attributes this discovery to astronomer ...

Research examining traces of parasites in medieval Cambridge residents suggests that monks were almost twice as likely as ordinary townspeople to have intestinal worms -- despite monasteries of the ...

Tianyi Wang works for the University of Cambridge. He receives funding from Chinese Scholarship Council-Cambridge Trust Scholarship. Piers Mitchell does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive ...

What do medieval monks and volcanic eruptions have in common? According to a team of researchers led by the University of Geneva, quite a bit because chronicles from the 12th and 13th century are ...

(The Conversation) — Warrior-monks crusaded for Christianity throughout medieval Europe. Adding to the ongoing mystery surrounding the military order is their enigmatic seal. (The Conversation) — The ...