Geoffrey Chaucer, often called the Father of English Literature, rose from a merchant's son to a respected figure through ...

Celebrations for medieval peasants were frequent and centered around religious holidays, and the longest and most festive of ...

When people think of the European Middle Ages, it often brings to mind grinding poverty, superstition and darkness. But the ...

Although the Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir formed less than a century ago, with a verifiable context and history, writers and listeners still treat the ensemble’s music with the same ...

A 1,300-year-old grave unearthed during construction of a housing complex in Northamptonshire has been hailed as the most significant early medieval female burial discovered in Britain. The collection ...

An exhibition prioritizes the expensive, silent object over the lived, functional experience of the believer.

From the bombast of Moulin Rouge! to the teen angst of Marie Antoinette, these are the best movies that use anachronism to ...

HAVANA TIMES – Rural women in Chile have denounced a strong uptick in the use of dangerous pesticides in the large agro-export businesses, along with the deterioration of their labor and environmental ...

During the Tokugawa era (A.D. 1603–1868), much of Japan was ruled by the country’s military governor, called the shogun, or his retainers. The rest was divided up into several hundred semiautonomous ...

Explore whether medieval peasants were actually banned from owning weapons, and how laws differed across regions, rulers, and time periods. US F/A-18 jets fly into Gulf of Venezuela 'We got a real ...

Life in many medieval towns revolved around constructing a cathedral, a massive undertaking that took generations of work by everyone from artists and architects to prisoners of war. Work in ...