OYSTERS and “escargot” are recognised as luxury foods around the world — but they were once valued by the lower classes as cheap sources of protein. Less adventurous eaters today see snails as a ...

Northern Italy has been hit by a series of devastating floods in recent years. In March 2025 and the previous autumn, heavy ...

In early medieval Italy, people dug canals and drained wetlands not just to farm new land, but also to manage flooding and ...

Warren Frye on “The Last Peasant War,” by Jakub S. Beneš.

Oysters and escargot are recognized as luxury foods around the world—but they were once valued by the lower classes as cheap sources of protein. Less adventurous eaters today see snails as a garden ...

Oysters and escargot are recognized as luxury foods around the world—but they were once valued by the lower classes as cheap ...

Kingdoms and Castles is a charming indie city-building simulation that transports players to a vibrant, low-poly medieval ... peasants and a dream of grandeur. From there, you assign tasks like ...

So when I heard that Medieval peasants had a similar-ish sleep pattern ... for me if I was living a screen-free life in a Medieval farm; but I’m not. Instead, I’m a 21st-century nine-to ...

Even though I write a lot about sleep for my job, I’ve been struggling with insomnia for years (my average sleep time is just ...