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 marriage wasn’t just about romance — it was about family, property, politics, and survival. In this video, we share ...

While religion in modern days may be more welcoming to LGBTQ members than in the past, a trip uptown to Manhattan’s Fort ...

A rare manuscript illustration casts Blackness not as a mirror of sin, but the ground from which love itself might take shape.

More than 500 years ago, while a medieval scribe was carefully copying a religious manuscript by hand, a cat walked across the pages while the ink was still ...

And in Europe, the medieval era was particularly disease-ridden. But what happened when money and social stigma collided? To ...

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

Interior of a Doctor's House - from reproduction of a miniature from 'Epistre de Othea' by Christine de Pisan, c. 1430. In recent years, the quest for eternal life has become big business, as a ...

Norwich Castle, a mighty medieval fortress built by William the Conquerer after he invaded England in 1066, reopened to the public last month following a landmark $37 million restoration. The castle’s ...

Rachel Feltman: These days, science and magic are generally thought of as being diametrically opposed: fact versus fiction, reason versus fantasy, modern sensibilities versus archaic misconceptions.

Though films and TV series about the Middle Ages do not always attract the same level of love and critical praise as those set in other periods of history, there are still a number of notable films ...

The research, published in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, analyzed 939 adult skeletons from five medieval cemeteries in Denmark, dating from approximately 1050 to 1536 AD. The findings ...