Whenever a fantasy story treads too far into gruesome violence or plain old human exploitation ... on protecting mothers from harm,” medieval history scholar Sara McDougall told Slate.

Some fictional medieval animals ... The manticore had a lion’s body and, often, a human face; as one 13th-century scholar put ...

The audience howled. This is the world of modern medieval battle, a human demolition derby where men and women wearing up to 100 pounds of armor slash and hammer one another with blunted steel ...

110 Medieval Ecocriticisms (2): Human and Non-Human. The paper by Charlotte Goddu has ... Additionally, Kandace Brill Lombart is an independent scholar. 335 Cistercian Sermons. The presider is Marsha ...

Birds of prey in medieval Britain relied far more heavily on scavenging human waste than previously thought, according to research that analyzed more than 30 ancient bird skeletons. Ancient red ...

You can get in touch with Aristos by emailing a.georgiou@newsweek.com. Languages: English, Spanish A study of medieval human remains from a castle in Spain has unraveled fascinating insights into ...

The new study, published in Antiquity, suggests that this wall was an important part of frontier life and provides a more complex picture of society in medieval Mongolia ... of the wall’s excavation ...

In medieval Europe, a rivalry between two assertive cultures ... The idea of the insides of a human body being somehow identified with God struck Jews as being funny, but also sad because it was the ...

Most people don't get excited about intestinal parasite eggs preserved in 500-year-old human feces ... started digging into the remnants of a medieval latrine in Bruges, they knew who to call.

But we rarely speak of what caused this immigration — the Spanish Inquisition. Hèléne Jawhara Piñer is a French-Spanish scholar whose focus is medieval history and the history of food. Her ...