The painting - made up of an outlined masonry pattern with a central flower and stem motif - had been covered over. The post ...

In medieval Europe, castles were the ultimate homes for kings and nobles. The big stone structures weren't just fancy houses—they also protected the people inside and the land around them. While ...

The castle many Americans are most familiar with is the one that comes before every Disney film. Castles herald a fairy tale with a happy ending, an architectural translation of a generic fantasy that ...

Medieval castles solved sanitation with stone shafts, ammonia fumigated wardrobes, and hired specialists to empty the pits at night. The engineering was smarter than it sounds, and sometimes deadlier ...

On the weekend of May 30th and 31st, 2026, Blandy-les-Tours Castle in Seine-et-Marne will host the latest edition of its Seigneuriales—a spectacular medieval festival and one-of-a-kind event in Île-de ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. “No matter what legend you read, it seems the women always just ended up in a convent.” The men in our tour group at Germany’s Marksburg ...

The period is good and bad, transparent and opaque, only hazily understood—but ultimately the opposite of what we want our ...

Ever wish you had lived during medieval times — minus feudal oppression, torture and the plague, of course — when knights and princesses cavorted in castles? Do you like Game of Thrones, The Tudors, ...

A vintage engraving of Medieval fashions. Today, the Middle Ages are a sort of paradox; the myth of the “Dark Ages,” which survives quite ably in popular culture, allows space for it to be whatever ...