Among the most popular books of the time, bestiaries were filled with real and mythical animals and their lore, the protagonists of intriguing stories symbolizing human virtues and faults.

For a medieval farmer, life began before dawn. The rooster’s crow was the only alarm clock. He rose to the chill of morning, ate coarse bread and weak ale, and walked to the lord’s fields. As part of ...

If you passed by Anderson Campground on Saturday, you might have seen knights, princesses and others dressed in the Middle Ages.

Lamplighter Jan Tater wears a historical uniform as he lights a gas lamp on Charles Bridge in Prague on Dec. 16. (Martin Divisek/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) Perspective by ...

“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 ...

Living with dwarfism in the Middle Ages meant facing a world shaped by superstition, spectacle, and strict social roles. In ...

For religious Christians, Christmas is all about Jesus Christ. But his mother Mary was busy, too, giving birth. Over the centuries, Mary became one of the most popular figures of Christendom. Yet she ...

Many film-loving history buffs consider the Middle Ages to be an underutilized setting when it comes to cinema. The nearly 1,000 years that constitute this time period were full of epic battles, ...

Last week, an early medieval burial site—since characterized as one of the most significant ever excavated in the UK—was discovered. Buried alongside its inhabitant from the Middle Ages was an ...