In this video, History Hit duo Louee Dessent and Luke Tomes join the Swords of Penda re-enactment group - volunteers who ...

Was there any scientific basis to potions, lotions and salves that folk healers prescribed, or was it all just hocus pocus?

Located in West Flanders, Bruges (Dutch: Brugge) is a historic Belgian city known for its canals and medieval buildings. With ...

Here are the stars who died this year, including Diane Keaton, Robert Redford, Ozzy Osbourne, Giorgio Armani, and Dick Cheney ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Buffalo Tom presents the “Please Come to Boston” festival, ...

A German archaeologist discussed his team’s research on two cadavers buried in early medieval England — both of whom had ...

As creators of educational, religious and charitable institutions, women of means found ways to circumvent the patriarchal ...

When a royal vessel sank of the coast of Normandy in 1120, it not only claimed hundreds of lives but also set off a ...

The hair-raising reality of the Middle Ages is a grisly one that contrasts greatly with today’s healthcare and technological advancements: a world without modern medicine, where even a small infection ...

During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge of light and color to show ...

The revelation centers on a text called a "maqāma" - an Arabic literary genre featuring traveling tricksters - written by the poet and historian Ibn al-Wardi in 1348-49 in Aleppo, according to the new ...

From burning castles to swords and magic and velvet gowns, medievalism has taken over 21st century pop culture.