While the Black Church enlivened Christian worship, there is an even older story of Christian dance that I tell in my 2021 book, “Ringleaders of Redemption: How Medieval Dance Became Sacred.” ...

The Cambridge team applied a similar osteological analysis to its own sampling of remains, since there is evidence that the medieval inhabitants of Cambridge also favored poulaine-tipped shoes by ...

In a new study, medieval researchers found that bunions were as familiar an issue then as they are today, particularly for those who partake in fashionably slim and pointed toe shoes, such as ...

They were the Jimmy Choos of their day. Known as poulaines, pointy leather shoes were the height of fashion in 14th century Britain. Medieval men and women about town, however, suffered for their ...

Writing in the International Journal of Paleopathology, the team reports that the rise of elongated shoes in late medieval Cambridge led to a sharp increase in hallux valgus of the big toe ...

Among these new fashion trends were “poulaines” – rather eccentric-looking medieval shoes with a lengthy pointed tip. The adoption of this latest flavour of footwear was not without its risks.

Her repertoire spans hundreds of years, from medieval dance to dances of the early 20th ... with attendees simply advised to wear comfortable shoes and bring water. The full York International ...

This hallux valgus seems to have been popular in medieval England as well, and researchers have announced research results that 'the popularity of pointed shoes as a fashion has dramatically ...

As part of the BBC's current focus on Dance, Lucie Skeaping is joined by choreographer and early dance expert Darren Royston to discover some of the delights of medieval dance moves.

While the Black Church enlivened Christian worship, there is an even older story of Christian dance that I tell in my 2021 book, Ringleaders of Redemption: How Medieval Dance Became Sacred. Evidence ...

They were the Jimmy Choos of their day. Known as poulaines, pointy leather shoes were the height of fashion in 14th century Britain. Medieval men and women about town, however, suffered for their ...