As the capital and largest city of East Flanders, Ghent combines medieval heritage with modern urban life. The city rose to ...

From misunderstood epics like Beowulf to underappreciated gems like The Northman, these are the greatest Medieval fantasy ...

ARMORED MMA, a performance featuring fully armored athletes fighting in a mixed martial arts cage, will be coming to the ...

Prisons in the Middle Ages were often designed less for rehabilitation and more for punishment and control. Some facilities ...

Sicilian populations have been genetically diverse for many centuries, and they have remained that way even through major ...

Medieval torture was used both to extract confessions and to punish the convicted prior to execution. Torturers (who were ...

Subhoranjan Dasgupta uses Romila Thapar’s recently published memoir to explain why she is so reviled by the Hindutva ...

Chaucer’s meadows are romantic landscapes of leisurely frolicking. But for medieval haymakers July meant a month of hard ...

Authentic European armor from the Middle Ages is now on display in Spokane, giving residents a rare opportunity to step into ...

The endless security lines at the airport may seem torturous — but they are child’s play compared with what heretics and ...

How is work reorganized when an entire society is struck by economic shocks, conflicts, and disasters? This is the central question of SABIR (Sailing Beyond the Crisis. Comparative Perspectives ...

The largest of all the British war cemeteries in Normandy stands on the southern outskirts of Bayeux. It has a stone colonnade with a Latin inscription that has become famous: Nos a gulielmo victi ...