We all know the Middle Ages was full of archers in warfare, bard’s songs, and castles with clockwise stairs. One aspect of medieval life we don’t usually picture, however, is the way society at the ...

The medieval period often gets painted as a thousand years of darkness, filth, and ignorance. Popular culture loves to show us dirty peasants wallowing in mud, superstitious fools who thought the ...

What was life like in the Middle Ages? If you believe what you’ve seen in movies—or maybe even what your history teacher told you—you might expect that people died young, never bathed, were ignorant ...

Since the dawn of humanity, dogs and humans have lived side by side as friends, companions, and fellow hunters. Pet dogs have been depicted in prehistoric cave paintings, on the walls of ancient ...

Every age has a tendency to look back at older generations and judge the customs, beliefs and traditions of the time. However, it is fair to say that there are few periods in history that we regard as ...

I I am, without a doubt, one of the nerdiest people I know. My love for all things old-world, fantastical, and medieval is endless. Being an American, I don’t brush up against much that is medieval, ...

Where do modern social institutions — like universities, legal systems, and capitalist economies — come from? The genesis of many institutions and concepts can be traced back to the medieval and early ...

A stained-glass window depicting Empress Matilda's voyage from England to Normandy Andreas F. Borchert via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 In three decades of teaching medieval European history, ...

Olivia Swarthout has brought medieval art to the masses (460K Twitter followers and counting) but she’s not formally trained in medieval history or art. A self-described “proprietress of weird ...

In the political world, women are running for office in record numbers, but one new female leader has assumed a role she could only be born into. For the first time in its 34-year history, Medieval ...