Belle Tuten, an expert who earned her PhD in medieval history from Emory University, says House of the Dragon isn't particularly accurate in terms of monsters, wars and drama. .

What you ate in the Middle Ages depended heavily on who you were. In this video, we compare the diet of a wealthy medieval ...

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.

Perhaps look for a group of people not perpetually engaged in siege warfare. “Medieval peasants are a weird one to go to, because, you know, they were rebelling constantly,” Janega noted.

Its accurate representation of medieval agricultural systems is an achievement, but what I found more impressive was that it represents medieval peasants and their lives more fully than most games ...

Medieval peasants worked only about 150 days in a year. The Church believed it was important to keep them happy with frequent, mandatory holidays. You have less holidays than a Medieval peasant.

It was covering a 33-foot deep medieval well. Colin Steer was curious. He dug a foot down before his wife made him stop. There are kids in the house, she told him. Now retired, Colin's back to work.

Swarthout is the researcher behind the popular art history-inspired social media account Weird Medieval Guys, which has attracted nearly 700,000 followers on X, formerly Twitter, since she began ...