Beneath the shadow of castles and cathedrals medieval Europe was far from primitive this is the story of how science art and ...

When you hear it said that “Modern steel is disposable by design”, your ears perk up, as you just caught the unmistakable ...

From burning castles to swords and magic and velvet gowns, medievalism has taken over 21st century pop culture.

the everyday reality in the Dark Ages was grossly different for most. Life expectancy was short, disease was common, and ...

Greti Dinkova-Bruun is a Fellow and Library Director at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto, and has been looking into medieval texts to find how frogs were depicted and used for ...

Disease, famine, and violence lurked around every corner of medieval life. For ordinary people, survival beyond 24 hours wasn’t guaranteed.

Last weekend my wife and I were in Florence for an old family friend’s wedding. With a morning free, we visited the Uffizi, a solemn temple for a former professional artist and art major like me. The ...

Ah, yes, that time of year again: falling leaves, the smell of spice, crisp air and — who could forget — that annual plunge into […] ...

The polarizing dessert that people love to hate became a Christmas mainstay thanks, in part, to the U.S. Postal Service.

For Nobel Prize winning writer László Krasznahorkai, his famously long sentences are philosophical rather than stylistic ...

Journalism and fiction are both essential to a thriving democracy.

In the shadowy nave of a small village church in Surrey sits a battered medieval cauldron - but how it came to be there is shrouded in mystery. It is thought the copper vessel was brought to the ...