Life in the Middle Ages was overshadowed by disease, long before modern medicine existed. This video explores some of the ...

What passed for fast food in medieval times was far from today's standards, offering a rough, gritty contrast to the ...

Good health relied on keeping them in balance, by blood-letting for example. Medieval physicians’ views on diet, said Gerard ...

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, ...

The U.S. middle class is shrinking, but not because more Americans are poorer. Instead, more households are climbing into the echelons of the upper middle class due to income gains in recent decades, ...

Though films and TV series about the Middle Ages do not always attract the same level of love and critical praise as those set in other periods of history, there are still a number of notable films ...

The brain goes through five distinct stages between birth and death, a new study shows. Scientists identified the average ages—9, 32, 66 and 83—when the pattern of connections inside our brains shift.

Among the most popular books of the time, bestiaries were filled with real and mythical animals and their lore, the protagonists of intriguing stories symbolizing human virtues and faults. SCULPTED IN ...

The idea of tourism is a relatively new one. In the medieval period, no one traveled for fun. In fact, most people never ventured further than twenty miles from their hometown. If they did, it was ...

Middle manager under strain as leadership requests various things from him. Middle managers are often overlooked, overworked, and underappreciated. Yet they may be the most influential leaders in ...