The Wye Valley National Landscape offers a 138-mile walking trail from mid Wales to Chepstow, celebrating its 50th ...

Medieval Western Europe is often portrayed as backward compared to the Islamic world—but the evidence tells a different story ...

Uni brochures love to sell the dream of moving in with strangers, making life-long friends, and living in your own little ...

Doctors have reminded Brits of the signs and symptoms of bowel cancer and other big killers, such as heart problems, as ...

We’re so used to modern hygiene that it’s easy to forget how difficult self-care once was. With limited information and few reliable resources, people developed odd — and often unhygienic — habits. In ...

It’s believed that this was an extremely common practice. In 13th-century France, they supposedly even passed a law requiring residents to shout three times before emptying a pot: “Watch out, water!” ...

Among the most popular books of the time, bestiaries were filled with real and mythical animals and their lore, the protagonists of intriguing stories symbolizing human virtues and faults. SCULPTED IN ...

When we think about the life in medieval Europe, we tend to conjure up grim and dismal images of war, poverty, sickness, and the Dark Ages. But was it truly so dark? Is there more to it, or are we ...

An obvious place to begin when discussing the hygiene practices of our ancestors is with their toilet habits. Until relatively recently, most homes were not equipped with indoor bathrooms or running ...

At the Met Cloisters in Manhattan, paintings, statuettes and other objects demonstrate that human desire transcends time and cultures. The fictional tale of Phyllis and Aristotle, in which she gets ...