The Middle Ages were full of more than just knights and castles – they were packed with truly bizarre tales. In this video, ...

When most people think about medieval marriages they are either practical, cold, and loveless, or the idealised “courtly love ...

This year at Yale, two new literature classes will push the boundaries — cultural, linguistic, and geographic — of what we talk about when we talk about medieval literature. The aims of the classes ...

When COVID-19 swept the globe in 2020, epidemiologists weren’t the only ones thinking they’d seen it all before. So did medieval historians. Diseases — especially the bubonic plague — ravaged many ...

One thinks of the Middle Ages as a time when peasants rarely moved more than a few miles from their huts or monks from their monasteries—when people generally, other than perhaps the well-to-do, were ...

Historians recently unearthed some "health hacks" dating back to the Middle Ages – and some sound like they came straight off TikTok. The database, called the Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine, ...

A free Medieval Dynasty update is joined by elegant cosmetics in new DLC and a Steam sale for the crafting, building, and ...

Cats had a bad reputation in the middle ages. Their presumed links with paganism and witchcraft meant they were often treated with suspicion. But despite their association with the supernatural, ...

These real medieval castles will transport you to a world filled with knights and princesses, legendary lore and inspiration for your daydreams Castles conjure up images of a romantic medieval past, ...

Researchers are excavating Leicester Market amid the area’s large-scale renovation New Research New research suggests that the famous bronze statue may have originally guarded a Chinese tomb before ...

“Residents frustrated at ‘medieval’ cellphone coverage in the Far North,” ran the headline on a New Zealand news website. Communities on the shores of the Pacific Ocean were fed up with constant poor ...

Creative Assembly, the developer behind the classic Total War series of strategy games, has finally revealed that Total War: ...