Rothenburg is still Germany's best-preserved walled town. In the Middle Ages, Rothenburg was Germany's second-largest city with a population of 6,000. Rolf Richardson / Alamy Twenty-five years ago, I ...

If you have been dreaming of a vacation that is so serene and feels like you are walking through the set of a historical romance, listen up. Tucked away in the Harz region of central Germany, ...

Sailing solo through Germany’s storybook towns felt like stepping into a living fairytale—no rental car, no repacking—just castles, cathedrals and cobbled streets unfolding beyond my cabin window. The ...

Excavations in Germany have brought to light a medieval tunnel concealed within an ancient prehistoric cemetery. A rare discovery that sheds new light on a site used for thousands of years.

Texts versus images: female spirituality from an art historian's perspective -- Art, enclosure, and the pastoral care of nuns -- The visual and the visionary: the image in late medieval monastic ...

Work in Germany reveals enormous foundations of a medieval monastery hidden beneath Borken, surprising archaeologists.