This video reveals how gambling became one of the most destructive habits of medieval life. In inns, taverns and military ...

Medieval Europe (roughly 500–1500 CE) is often misunderstood—thanks in part to movies, myths, and oversimplified history lessons. Life wasn't constant chaos, and warfare wasn't always cinematic. But ...

These days, it’s easy to take cleanliness for granted — we can shower whenever we please and choose from an endless array of soaps, shampoos, and skincare products. But life in the Middle Ages was a ...

In excavating the medieval site of the St. Mary Magdalen hospital cemetery and chapel in Winchester, England, researchers were looking to genotype a strain of leprosy. They wanted to shed light on the ...

Norwich Castle, a mighty medieval fortress built by William the Conquerer after he invaded England in 1066, reopened to the public last month following a landmark $37 million restoration. The castle’s ...

A long-standing myth about medieval history is that the Middle Ages were intellectually dark. Science supposedly took a hiatus between the demise of Rome and the rise of Copernican astronomy and ...

Whenever a fantasy story treads too far into gruesome violence or plain old human exploitation, storytellers like to trot out four little words: “But it’s historically accurate.” That was the ...

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