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.

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

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

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

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 ...

Back in the Middle Ages (a.k.a. the Medieval era, approximately 476-1450 A.D.), people's daily lives were very centered around the rules laid out by the church. According to the World History ...

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.

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 ...

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

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