The transcript presents ordinary medieval life as a brutal cycle of labor, filth, fear, hunger, and sudden death. Most people ...

Medieval Europe (roughly 500–1500 CE) is often misunderstood—thanks in part to movies, myths, and oversimplified history lessons. Life wasn’t constant chaos, and warfare wasn’t always cinematic. But ...

Whenever a fantasy story treads too far into gruesome violence or plain old human exploitation, storytellers like to trot out four little words: “But it’s historically accurate.” That was the ...

What type of images come to mind when you think of medieval art? Knights and ladies? Biblical scenes? Cathedrals? It’s probably not some unfortunate man in the throes of vomiting. It might surprise ...

Norwich Castle, a mighty medieval fortress built by William the Conquerer after he invaded England in 1066, reopened to the public last month following a landmark $37 million restoration. The castle’s ...

In excavating the medieval site of the St. Mary Magdalen hospital cemetery and chapel in Winchester, England, researchers were looking to genotype a strain of leprosy. They wanted to shed light on the ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. While The Sims has become a series known for controlling the lives of little computer people as they putter around little computer suburbia, the next ...