The period is good and bad, transparent and opaque, only hazily understood—but ultimately the opposite of what we want our ...

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A new study reveals that medieval chess was a powerful vehicle for promoting racial harmony. While contemporary medieval art often depicted non-white individuals in extreme roles, representations of ...

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 ...

From lost silver coins to fossilised faeces, medieval cesspits have become some of the richest archives of everyday life in ...

A stained-glass window depicting Empress Matilda's voyage from England to Normandy Andreas F. Borchert via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 In three decades of teaching medieval European history, ...

We often romanticize the Middle Ages, seeing them as a time of chivalry, gallant knights, and castles. Beneath all of this pageantry and myth lies the stark reality of an era defined by brutal warfare ...

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More than a thousand years after a ship vanished off the coast of modern-day Croatia, archaeologists have uncovered a wreck that might reshape our ideas of the medieval world.