Historians were surprised when analyses revealed Catholic monks used pinniped hides for the protective outer layer on some ...

Challenging word-based games are not a modern invention. In early medieval England there was a strong appetite for word ...

Each year on Christmas, a jester named Roland would enter the royal court of King Henry II of England and perform a dance ...

Payton’s catchphrase “Tis my jester” has become a sort of rallying cry for the KnightTok subgenre, combining historical ...

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

Cambridge University researchers found a manuscript with rare Arthurian tales bound into a ledger more than 400 years old and ...

Clowns, jesters, harlequins and fools have, of course, played a similar role throughout history. In ancient Greece, they served as ribald choristers in epic dramas, while emperors in Han dynasty ...

Each Thursday, Holland rewinds the clock, not just returning to medieval times but also to his days as a young man parading around the East Bay in chain mail and swinging a makeshift broad sword.

Today in Medieval Madness, we look at the life of a Medieval Jester. More for You White House pulls Trump’s nomination for CDC director hours before confirmation hearing ...

Mark Sell "As I wiped away the mud, I could see the bezel of a medieval gold jewelled ring," said Mark Sell Mr Sell said he had been in the field a couple of times before, but had not found ...

No one was more surprised than medieval armourer Matthew Finchen ... Anyone partial to a pop of colour can consider taking notes from court jesters — one of the key references during Valentino ...