Each night, the moon glistens in the night sky, replete with all sorts of meanings depending on the person viewing it. Poets and artists have contemplated it for thousands of years. The moon meant a ...

For decades, I’ve been showing my medieval history students the “autonomous collective” scene from the 1975 film “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” The clip is funny because it features two medieval ...

History has a way of getting twisted. When it comes to the Middle Ages, what we think we know is often completely wrong. Our modern understanding of medieval times is riddled with misconceptions that ...

Apparently, people slept in two sessions in Africa, South America, the Middle East, and many other regions. Ekirch also found references to biphasic sleep in ancient texts by the Greek philosopher ...

Medieval people have a reputation for being superstitious—and many of the supernatural phenomena found in the pages of medieval chronicles, miracle stories and romances are still alive in modern ...

The medieval period often gets painted as a thousand years of darkness, filth, and ignorance. Popular culture loves to show us dirty peasants wallowing in mud, superstitious fools who thought the ...

As many as one in three Americans suffer from bunions, those painful bumps that form on the outside of the big toe. Wearing high heels or ill-fitting shoes that cramp the toes can make the pain even ...

Our language as a culture is constantly shifting and changing, from Gen Z slang today to Old English in the 5th century. While most of the phrases and language we use today are formed by our needs and ...

Researchers have created facial reconstructions of three medieval Scottish people who were buried at the historic Whithorn site. Christopher Rynn / Whithorn Trust It all began with an accident. In ...