A viral story claims medieval European women poisoned husbands daily, giving an antidote at night. Historians say this practice never happened. Medieval Europe lacked the science for such precise ...

Servers bring out dishes of lentil soup during the recreation of a medieval-style harvest feast staged by Archaeology Now Houston. As many of us prepare this week to sit down for our Thanksgiving ...

The Worcester Art Museum’s reopening of its armor galleries goes far beyond the romance with medieval Europe.

My students tend to imagine the Middle Ages as something like the “Kingdom Come” or “Total War” video games: an age of utter political chaos, when swords and daggers ruled, and masculinity and ...