Medieval Historian Eleanor Janega takes a deep dive into the historical accuracy of Monty Python's Legendary 'The Holy Grail' ...

Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s wedding reportedly cost $50 million. Many critics don't think it looks like it.

The English word "picnic" comes from the French "pique-nique," already in use in France by the 1600s and said to refer to a group of people getting together for an informal meal and each bringing a ...

These novels blend the substantiated with the surreal, offering new ways to understand the past through magic, monsters and ...

You would think that there would be just a few occupations during the Middle Ages. There would be the lord of the manor, the knights, the lord’s household and the peasants. But this is just a broad ...

The ethics of first contact have not solely been explored by Star Trek (authors like Olaf Stapledon and Arthur C. Clarke had ...

NAGOYA--Instead of hurling "shuriken" stars or vanishing into thin air, ninja missions in Tottori province in the Edo Period ...

Gothic horror and dark academia dominate this season’s offerings alongside timely climate fiction and epic romantasy.

In the concluding part of our series on US-Iran relations, we examine the Shah’s push for modernisation, the emergence of ...

Ancient Rome was a rigidly hierarchical society where the ruling elite stigmatized everyone who had to work with their hands.

Swap medieval peasants and merchants for office workers and digital nomads, and the picture remains the same. Bruegel’s Tower of Babel (1563) depicted humanity’s overreach — a clash between ambition ...

Iconic Pride is the annual series of Pride programming held at New York City’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine, America’s ...