Criminal life in the Middle Ages was dangerous, unpredictable, and often short. Justice systems varied by region but commonly relied on public punishment to deter crime. Minor offenses could result in ...

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

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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.

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 ...

Each year, guides young and old embark on a training run to hone “soft” and “hard” skills on a river that should be on every ...

From medieval beginnings, the samurai have inspired art, fiction and films, from Shōgun to Star Wars. But their true story is ...

Supposedly it was the literary icon F. Scott Fitzgerald who first observed, in a 1936 Esquire magazine essay, that "the test ...

Getting older has a few perks — wisdom, greater perspective on life and senior discounts among them — but most of us ...

Paul Prather: Resisting binary thinking doesn't mean abandoning values. But it requires us to accept that life exists in a ...

People that are interested in history, they don’t know [you can own an ancient artifact],’ Yasha Bykhovsky said.