When most people think about medieval marriages they are either practical, cold, and loveless, or the idealised “courtly love ...

Today, the Middle Ages are a sort of paradox; the myth of the “Dark Ages,” which survives quite ably in popular culture, allows space for it to be whatever the popular imagination wants. When people ...

At the Met Cloisters in Manhattan, paintings, statuettes and other objects demonstrate that human desire transcends time and cultures. The fictional tale of Phyllis and Aristotle, in which she gets ...

From crusaders to champions of chivalry, these knights shaped the Middle Ages with their swords, honor, and courage. Their ...

Medieval Christianity holds up a helpful mirror to the contemporary church. In recent decades, evangelicals studying faith in the Middle Ages have done much to recover its variety and richness. Yet a ...

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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 ...

A University of Arkansas archaeologist is part of a team that discovered the first example of ancient plague DNA in domesticated livestock.

The Middle Ages is one of the key “wish fulfillment” times for creators for various reasons. Mainly because there is a thrill in being a Knight, and fighting in wars of that era, or taking that period ...