Medieval Europe was the perfect breeding ground for disease — overcrowded towns, open sewers, contaminated water, and no ...
Danish archaeologists unearthed dozens of medieval graves, shedding light on how disease and hardship shaped life in early ...
Medieval Lady Death, the popular fantasy character first launched at CrossGen Entertainment rises like a phoenix out of the ashes and returns to comic shops across the globe this February courtesy of ...
The extremely long skull of a medieval knight points to an underlying genetic condition.
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - You can't quarrel with that title, "Black Death." The film is black all right, pitch black, and death is everywhere. The story is set in 1348, after all, when the ...
Medieval nun fakes death to escape convent and enjoy a life of carnal lust. Sounds like the basis for a juicy novel, but this really happened during the 14th century in England. Archivist and ...
A curious thing happened in the middle of the 14th century. According to Henry Knighton's Chronicle, an English narrative completed at Leicester by ca. 1400 CE, in the year 1348 a group of about 40-50 ...
In predicting the future, we often turn to our past experiences. Humanity has, after all, faced pandemics like this one before — many times, in fact — and few are as memorable and menacing as the ...
In medieval England, peasants on some estates were entitled to a range of sick, annual and bereavement leave that could rival ...