Medieval society needed workers, but not every role earned dignity. Certain jobs were unavoidable, but still left people ...

Calling Lords, Ladies, young squires and noble maidens, the Shreveport Regional Arts Council calls upon thy neighbors to join ...

Scans and radiographs revealed not just the break but its consequences: dense new bone formations, signs of infection, and ...

Learn more about the Mongolian Arc, a section of medieval wall that is changing how we understand the ancient populations of ...

Though travel was rudimentary compared to the modern age, racial, gender and even sexual diversity could be found throughout medieval society. One 2019 study, for example, used DNA from bones in a ...

This piece is part of a series of articles covering the medieval and early modern great powers of each of Asia’s regions: ...

In feudal Japan, the Onna-Bugeisha were fierce female warriors who defied gender norms to fight alongside samurai. Trained in ...

The Rule of St. Augustine offered monks a firm structure for their daily lives of work and prayer, even before the mendicant ...

Directed by Lena Dunham, it’s best described as a farcical medieval spin on Judy Blume’s coming-of-age classic “Are You There ...

The repatriation of Afghan refugees is not only devastating and dangerous. It amounts to a betrayal—one that certain Western ...

To convey how all-encompassing the Roman Catholic Church was during the Middle Ages, the historian R.W. Southern once offered ...