Still, life for the average person was far from glamorous. Let's uncover some of the terrifying truths about life in Medieval ...

The medieval period often gets painted as a thousand years of darkness, filth, and ignorance. Popular culture loves to show us dirty peasants wallowing in mud, superstitious fools who thought the ...

For anyone who’s wondered about Aristotle’s sex life, saintly gender identity or medieval spanking, the Met Cloisters’ newest exhibition may hold some answers—or at least some artistic interpretations ...

The clamour of (carefully blunted) swords fills the air at Claregalway Castle during a Medieval Armoured Combat Ireland ...

Over the centuries, perhaps no volume of poetry has claimed the devotion of so many people across the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and also inspired the creation of artistic ...