The painting - made up of an outlined masonry pattern with a central flower and stem motif - had been covered over. The post ...

The idea that medieval people routinely emptied chamber pots straight into the street as their primary method of waste ...

The castle many Americans are most familiar with is the one that comes before every Disney film. Castles herald a fairy tale with a happy ending, an architectural translation of a generic fantasy that ...

Medieval castles solved sanitation with stone shafts, ammonia fumigated wardrobes, and hired specialists to empty the pits at night. The engineering was smarter than it sounds, and sometimes deadlier ...

The period is good and bad, transparent and opaque, only hazily understood—but ultimately the opposite of what we want our ...

Don Quixote sees phantoms of the Middle Ages wherever he goes. Roadside inns are castles, vagabonds are knights in shining armour and windmills are giants to be jousted with. I often feel the same way ...

The ring, made in part from deep-blue stone, was likely owned by a high-status woman during the Middle Ages.

A hidden section of medieval wall painting dating back at least 700 years has been uncovered at Durham Castle. The artwork, featuring an outlined masonry pattern with a central flower and stem motif, ...

A vintage engraving of Medieval fashions. Today, the Middle Ages are a sort of paradox; the myth of the “Dark Ages,” which survives quite ably in popular culture, allows space for it to be whatever ...