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 ...

Hear ye! Hear ye! A new history fact has been debunked! According to bubo-bursting research by the German Museum of Medicine ...

Where to celebrate fright night in London – and fun things to do - Halloween isn’t cancelled! From (virtual) masked balls to ...

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - Visitors to Hattiesburg’s Pocket Museum in October will get a frightening look at how doctors treated some patients hundreds of years ago. It’s all part of a new exhibit ...

King Richard and Queen Anne have a new realm at the former Edaville Family Theme Park in Carver, Massachusetts. From the moment you walk under the ivy-covered arched entrance, to the jousting ...

Rats? Children? The Mongols? The Black Death swept across the world with terrifying speed, but who (or what) was really to blame? Louise Quick, with the help of the public and medieval historians Dr ...

It is not just a scourge of the Middle Ages. Plague still exists, though it is rare. Here’s what to look for and how to protect yourself. By Emily Baumgaertner Nunn Health officials in the Sierra ...

Historians recently unearthed some "health hacks" dating back to the Middle Ages – and some sound like they came straight off TikTok. The database, called the Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine, ...