Herald of Ages explained why the Medieval Period became known as the Middle Ages. It’s due to the fact that this era sits between the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 and the Renaissance Era in ...

For some time, many of these looked to the medieval period as a moment of chivalry and knightly quest. More recently, however, popular culture set in the Middle Ages has leaned into the gritty and ...

Mighty warhorses, as richly adorned and armoured as their knightly riders, are an immediately recognisable icon of the ...

Satire had an important social function in medieval Ireland and poet Conchobhar Ruadh Mac Con Midhe knew how to use it ...

“But this aesthetic taps into the medieval period with its dark, gothic, and brooding visual language," Mia Jacobs, a youth fashion strategist at WGSN, a consumer trend forecasting ...

Sometimes it may appear that crime is increasing, but the apparent increase might actually be related to other factors: Historical research suggests that the medieval period was a particularly ...

And why do they look so bizarre to us today? The medieval period, also sometimes known as the Middle Ages, is generally understood to have spanned about 1,000 years, from the 5th century to the ...

In spite of the general easygoing attitude of the medieval period toward hygiene, table manners were not born in a vacuum. In Italy, the culture that would give rise to Catherine’s crusade for ...

Excavation work along the route of the Adare bypass unearthed a medieval treasure when a brooch pin dating back to the eighth ...