Some of the most catastrophic events in the Middle Ages never made it into our school textbooks. In this video, we spotlight ...

Natural disasters shaped the course of medieval history in powerful and often devastating ways. This video takes a closer ...

Is loneliness a modern epidemic as we are so often told? Did people in the past suffer similar feelings of isolation?

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

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

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

Some left writers have argued that contemporary capitalism is mutating into a form of “neofeudalism” as tech barons run amok.

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

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

Uses and Abuses of Power” is a program meant to assure audiences that questions of the present have confronted people in the ...

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 ...