The romance genre owes a major debt to the Middle Ages. That's where we get the word, the genre, and most of its tropes.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s something about winter that automatically puts the brain in medieval mode. Maybe it’s the Game of Thrones conditioning ...

The medieval world wasn’t a tourist brochure of castles and courtly dances. It was raw, violent, often absurd, and deeply human. Picture muddy battlefields where armies clashed with swords that ...

There’s something about winter that automatically puts the brain in medieval mode. Maybe it’s the Game of Thrones conditioning (“winter is coming,” etc.). Maybe it’s the constant consumption of soup ...