From burning castles to swords and magic and velvet gowns, medievalism has taken over 21st century pop culture.

A new study reveals that modern ideas about the Black Death’s rapid spread across Asia stem from a centuries-old ...

The revelation centers on a text called a "maqāma" - an Arabic literary genre featuring traveling tricksters - written by the poet and historian Ibn al-Wardi in 1348-49 in Aleppo, according to the new ...

C enturies before questionable COVID-19 information began rippling through social media, another inaccurate account of ...

The first scientific evidence of the Black Death in Edinburgh has been discovered on the remains of a teenage boy who died in ...

In 1518, Strasbourg experienced a terrifying Dancing Plague where hundreds danced uncontrollably for days, some to their ...