Every few months, a post does the rounds claiming that women in the Middle Ages in Europe routinely poisoned their husbands ...
A viral story claims medieval European women poisoned husbands daily, giving an antidote at night. Historians say this practice never happened. Medieval Europe lacked the science for such precise ...
The Worcester Art Museum’s reopening of its armor galleries goes far beyond the romance with medieval Europe.
My students tend to imagine the Middle Ages as something like the “Kingdom Come” or “Total War” video games: an age of utter political chaos, when swords and daggers ruled, and masculinity and ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Shutterstock. Europe’s medieval cities weren’t designed to impress modern travelers, yet centuries later they feel ...
Divers have unearthed the largest cog shipwreck ever discovered in a strait off Denmark, signalling a period of economic development in medieval Europe.