Discover the powerful and largely untold history of Japan’s Onna-musha - female samurai warriors who stood alongside men on ...

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

The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of ...

The 2000s were a golden era for anime, delivering iconic series that shaped the medium and captivated global audiences. This ...

You’ve heard of the Black Death and the Hundred Years’ War, but this medieval disaster? Probably not. In this episode, we shine a light on one of the most overlooked catastrophes of the Middle Ages – ...

Nostalgia is a killer. The term, originally coined in the late seventeenth century, described an illness that came in ...

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

Part period drama, part psychological thriller, director Pablo Larraín’s suspenseful and atmospheric film focuses on arguably ...

Rabat - As questions of identity, tradition, and intellectual exchange continue to animate Western and Arab academic spaces, ...

Last year, when I wrote about New Trad Fest, it was in abstract terms as I was largely relying on reports from people who had ...

The exhibition “almost didn’t happen.” A few years ago, Ed Schad, curator and publications manager at The Broad, a contemporary art museum in Los Angeles, certainly wasn’t feeling optimistic about ...