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.

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 ...

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 ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—A medieval art historian has won Western Michigan University's Otto Gründler Book Prize for her book on the study of absences, “lacunae” and gaps in manuscripts from the Middle Ages ...

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 ...

It’s clear to me, as a scholar of religious ethics ... and how does being patient make us better people? The writings of medieval Islamic thinker Abu Hamid al-Ghazali can give us insights ...