The period is good and bad, transparent and opaque, only hazily understood—but ultimately the opposite of what we want our ...

More than a thousand years after a ship vanished off the coast of modern-day Croatia, archaeologists have uncovered a wreck that might reshape our ideas of the medieval world.

From lost silver coins to fossilised faeces, medieval cesspits have become some of the richest archives of everyday life in ...

Prisons in the Middle Ages were often designed less for rehabilitation and more for punishment and control. Some facilities gained reputations for extreme conditions, where prisoners faced ...

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But even in the late Middle Ages, when life expectancy was considerably lower, youth was a flexible category that could expand well into the late 20s and even 30s. So what were the defining ...

Whenever a fantasy story treads too far into gruesome violence or plain old human exploitation, storytellers like to trot out four little words: “But it’s historically accurate.” That was the ...

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The idea that medieval people routinely emptied chamber pots straight into the street as their primary method of waste ...

The French publishing house highlights the exceptional career of its flagship author, a leading voice in Templar and Cathar fiction, whose work has been translated into 15 languages ...