Have you ever wondered what ladies and gentlemen really did in fearsome stone castles? Forget fancy ballads and jousting ...

The Middle Ages Were Cleaner Than We Think An era that valued spiritual and physical purity knew the importance of bathhouses, soap and even deodorant An illustration of a couple taking baths in ...

Although the movement of peoples across borders has been an issue of particular political concern recently, it hasn't always been so. In fact, during the European Middle Ages there really weren't ...

T he European Middle Ages seem to be having a moment. Although it’s true that, essentially since the time they ended, the period has been used to justify the shape of an author’s contemporary ...

Yet, the European Middle Ages — a period spanning more than 1,000 years — was much richer (and weirder) than even some of the best fiction or political spin. Comments. Newsletter Daily.

The Middle Ages are remembered as a time of conflict — there were wars between England and Scotland, between Muslims and Christians in Spain, and the Crusades in the Holy Land.