Whenever a fantasy series such as “House of the Dragon” treads deeply into gruesome violence or plain old human exploitation, storytellers like to say it’s historically accurate.

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 swords, axes and maces ...

In medieval Europe, a rivalry between two assertive cultures — Christians and Jews, who both considered themselves “God’s Chosen People” — gave rise to modern antisemitism, argues Yale’s Ivan G.

Dr. Elina Gertsman (Photo courtesy of Daniel Wolf Carroll) KALAMAZOO, Mich.—A medieval art historian has won Western Michigan University's Otto Gründler Book Prize for her book on the study of ...

A study of medieval human remains from a castle in Spain has unraveled fascinating insights into a group of warrior monks. Researchers examined the remains of 25 individuals buried between the ...

Rapunzel doesn’t have anything on this damsel in distress. A British scholar who spent seven hours trapped inside a medieval tower freed herself Thursday using just an eyeliner pen and a cotton ...

3 things to learn about patience − and impatience − from al-Ghazali, a medieval Islamic scholar (The Conversation) — In religious traditions, patience is more than waiting, or even more than ...

The "Shulchan Arukh" Orach Chayim. Serves 4. Prep Time: 15 minutes Shulchan Arukh Orach Chayim 455:6: “[Regarding] kneading with caraway, sesame and other types of seasonings, it’s kosher [for the ...