As familiar notions suggest, medieval medicine was influenced by herbs and humours. But these factors were part of a broader ...

Isn't history more fun when you can actually picture it?

This year at Yale, two new literature classes will push the boundaries — cultural, linguistic, and geographic — of what we talk about when we talk about medieval literature. The aims of the classes ...

The Middle Ages, usually dated from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, were a period of striking contrasts. Castles rose across Europe, knights pledged their loyalty to their owners, and entire ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. So too, they often rely on a narrative of the “Anglo-Saxons” as an English “race,” a concept that has played heavily in political ...

Eyvind Earle (American, 1916-2000), "Concept Art" (1958), from Sleeping Beauty (Walt Disney Productions), gouache on board, 9 1/4 × 21 3/4 inches, Hilbert Collection (© Disney Enterprises, Inc., ...

Medieval Europe’s diverse regional cultures were balanced by a conscious attempt to create a unified view of the world that embraced religious and social ideals, Latin and vernacular literature, and ...

I recently engaged an atheist who claimed that medieval hospitals were basically hospices, with no particular treatments, remedies or therapeutics — or any notable openness to scientific advancement ...

Medieval Studies has a choice to make. Just this week controversy erupted over the largest annual academic conference devoted to the study of the Middle Ages in all of its forms - the International ...

When we dismiss the Middle Ages as a dark, regrettable period, we aren't acknowledging what was going on outside Europe. While Europe was a moldering cultural backwater, the Arab world was ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

2026 can feel like the end of days at times, but these games show that the medieval Dark Ages were so much worse.