One thinks of the Middle Ages as a time when peasants rarely moved more than a few miles from their huts or monks from their monasteries—when people generally, other than perhaps the well-to-do ...

A European woman recently stumbled upon buried treasure from the Middle Ages in what archaeologists ... said the treasure was hidden during a time of political instability. The trove was stored ...

and some parts of Idaho—the Cascadia of the Modern Middle Ages. The SCA isn’t a new thing. It’s been around since Berkeley history buffs threw on costumes and staged a tournament back in 1966.