To those who feel nerves before attending a party or have to overcome a sense of anxiety before guests arrive, medieval ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) In medieval Europe, transgender individuals affirmed their gender identities without medical intervention by altering their appearance, names, and social roles.

A change to a single gene in the bacterium Yersinia pestis has enabled one of the world’s most notorious pathogens to survive for centuries.

But being set in a European medieval fantasy setting does not protect it from woke critique. Gaming review site Kotaku praised the game as "the best Final Fantasy in ages," but had a major issue ...

Myth: Medieval people were filthy. Sure, it would take until the 19th century for the germ theory of disease to overtake the concept of humors and “miasmas” that could damage human health.

Not all medieval nights were created equal - and Halloween was one of the most unsettling. In this episode, we travel back to the Middle Ages to uncover how this eerie tradition took shape long before ...

Medieval people, including surgeons and patients, likely would not have had positive views of surgery that involved removing working body parts. Illustration from a Latin translation of Albucasis ...

And for the Middle Ages and for people living in medieval Europe, astrology was also really a part of daily life, and it was utilized in ways that I think we would be unfamiliar with today: ...

But medieval European women worked outside the home and contributed economically, too; they were farmers, bakers, brewers, tavern owners, shopkeepers, weavers, and (legal) sex workers.

Diaries written in the 16th century have helped researchers to chronicle famine, flooding and plagues in medieval Romania, shedding light on life during Europe’s Little Ice Age.

Recent projects have digitized an 11th-century tome surveying households in England, detailed travel routes through medieval Europe and compiled databases with the names of people who were ...