We’ve Been Getting it All Wrong Medieval Europe (roughly 500–1500 CE) is often misunderstood—thanks in part to movies, myths, ...

The peoples who lived along the western seaboard from the 11th to 17th centuries were part of a culturally dynamic society ...

Medieval Europe had no internet, but it had complex information networks built from manuscripts, gossip, sermons, songs, town ...

The Château de Villarceaux, in the Val-d'Oise department, invites you to step back into the Middle Ages and the Second Empire ...

In a new book, Belgian-born scholar Flora Cassen reaches back to the Middle Ages to understand the current climate of Jewish insecurity.

Without good dental care, teeth tend to suffer. An abundance of archaeological evidence has shown that poor oral health was ...

Isn't history more fun when you can actually picture it?

Predating the Aztec Empire, Merton College Library in Oxford has been used by everyone from celebrated 14th-Century ...

Both in schoolbooks and popular imagination, 476 AD stands like a sword stroke: the year Romulus Augustulus, the teenage ...

Anger’s in there somewhere, sure, a kind of generalized psychic road rage, but not enough of it to qualify. Same with envy, pride, gluttony, lust—just floating shards. Avarice? Nah. Of the seven, ...

For cobblestone streets and timeless French charm, it's hard to beat Saint-Antoine-l’Abbaye.

Prologue According to Homer, Chimera was a hybrid monster made up of a lion, the head of a fire-breathing goat sprouting on ...