Life during the Crusades was dangerous for everyone – but especially for women. In this video, we explore what it was like to survive as a woman in the midst of one of the most violent and chaotic ...

Medieval humor was weird, wild, and surprisingly relatable. In this video, we’ve compiled some of the funniest, strangest, ...

Remnants of what is believed to be one of the largest medieval hospitals in the north of England have been found ...

I was first introduced to the work of documentary filmmaker and writer Suzanne Khardalian during my postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA. A colleague of mine was teaching a comparative genocide course on ...

Researchers cite new evidence of how a medieval British noblewoman may have plotted to exact revenge and help kill her former ...

An analysis of a 700-year-old ring reveals a unique reddish-purple sapphire set in 18-karat gold with a lion decoration.

Anna Komnene, the 11th-century Byzantine princess who defied medieval norms to become one of the first female historians with ...

Zoe Gustavia Anna Whalen has been thinking about medieval times a lot lately. And not just because of the techno-feudalism ...

To that end, we've assembled a list of the best PC games that eschew prophecy and pyrotechnics for good old-fashioned steel-on-steel action. Medieval games come in all different shapes and sizes ...

A recent study by Dr. Astrid Noterman examined the rare bed burials of medieval Europe. Found predominantly in Germany, ...

Women had served as deacons in the early church, but the church restricted the ministry to only men during the Medieval period. Over the centuries, the idea of permanent deacons fell away and became a ...