Medieval medical advice wasn’t just strange—it was genuinely dangerous. From roasted onions shoved under your nose to ...

We have a tendency to associate youth culture with modernity, but medieval people were as anxious about youths as are today’s headline writers worrying about the rise of the “millennial.” As the poet ...

E ven before the rise of Santa Claus, indoor trees, and 24-hour holiday radio, Christmas was a cause for celebration. The ...

“Residents frustrated at ‘medieval’ cellphone coverage in the Far North,” ran the headline on a New Zealand news website. Communities on the shores of the Pacific Ocean were fed up with constant poor ...

The modern mind has been trained to regard the Middle Ages as backward and unenlightened. “The Oxford English Dictionary” defines the word medieval as something that is “very old-fashioned or ...

Researchers in Israel are hoping to make new discoveries about Jewish history by loading a digital database of manuscripts ...

“People have the right to live as they wish, we are no longer in the Middle Ages.” This statement, made recently by Luxembourg’s Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Jean Asselborn in relation to ...

In early modern England, women accused of being "common scolds" were immersed in rivers and lakes while strapped to contraptions known as ducking stools Katie Dancey-Downs Henry VIII's first wife may ...

SYRACUSE, NY -- You can imagine the sturdy wood tables and massive bar supporting the tankards and flagons of many a merry ale drinker of olden times. Or maybe even a group of Vikings in the corner ...