The romance genre owes a major debt to the Middle Ages. That's where we get the word, the genre, and most of its tropes.

Medieval Times has been having a moment on social media, so what is this dinner and show all about, and why does the internet ...

Four medieval swords were also discovered during excavation.

What did medieval people eat? Were medieval knights jacked? Why was medieval torture so cruel? Medieval historian and co-host ...

It all had to start somewhere, and for handheld firearms in Europe, genesis is what we call the "handgonne" or hand cannon, a ...

Leprosy carried powerful stigma in medieval Europe, but new skeletal evidence from Danish cemeteries suggests the sick were not always pushed aside in death. In medieval Denmark, burial location ...

Isotope analysis reveals that social status and wealth had a profound impact on diet in medieval England, showing that people from different social groups in medieval Cambridge ate markedly different ...

Medieval saints often earned authority not by healing people, but by restoring fields, animals, and land that kept rural ...

A high-altitude city in Uzbekistan with fortifications and iron workshops may match Marsmanda, revising Silk Road history.

Archaeologists in Germany recently revealed a secret tunnel from the Middle Ages — a tunnel hidden within a much older burial ...

Details are slim aside from that, but I'm quite tickled by the commitment to sticking with that medieval aesthetic even in ...