The medieval period often gets painted as a thousand years of darkness, filth, and ignorance. Popular culture loves to show ...

Among the most popular books of the time, bestiaries were filled with real and mythical animals and their lore, the ...

The show features more than 50 paintings, manuscripts, textiles and other artworks created in Western Europe between the 13th ...

Hannah Lacy, a member of the Attica High School Class of 2025, managed to do something few student athletes can say they’ve ...

A person in California has tested positive for the Black Death, the same disease that once wiped out tens of millions across Europe — and it happened in one of the state’s most visited outdoor ...

Welcome to the fascinating world of medieval warfare, a time when battles were fought with swords, shields, and a chivalric code that seems almost mythical today. During the Middle Ages, warfare was a ...

The phrase “develops the ideas of its predecessor” is really appropriate here. The first thing that catches the eye is the rejection of the usual hexagonal grid. It was replaced by squares, which at ...

The 1337 murder of the priest John Forde in the heart of medieval London was especially gruesome: one attacker slit Forde's throat with a dagger while two others stabbed him with "long knives" in the ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Maria Ochoa's family, who have lived on the city's Southwest Side for years, say reckless driving has gotten worse. And as they plan her funeral, they also want to make sure that ...

A woman was tortured for days, killed and then put on display at the side of the river Thames in central London around 1200 years ago. The case is thought to be one of the only examples of a judicial ...

Transgender activist and self-described “internationally acclaimed author” Eli Erlick ignited fury across social media after proudly admitting to enjoying victories over biological women in archery ...