Europe is filled with castles that once belonged to royalty, knights, and nobles, and now, some of them open their grand ...

A 2,000-year-old Roman toilet in Switzerland yielded an unexpected discovery: 19 large seeds from a fruit medieval Europe was ...

David M. Perry is a contributing columnist for the Minnesota Star Tribune focusing on disabilities, history, higher education and other issues. He is a historian and author.

In 732, a Frankish army under Charles Martel met Umayyad forces near Tours. The battle that followed helped define the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) My students tend to imagine the Middle Ages as something like the “Kingdom Come” or “Total War” video games: an age of utter political chaos, when swords and daggers ruled, and ...

Time Out’s top pick for Europe’s most underrated holiday destination is Izola in Slovenia . This little medieval town is ...

Archaeologists in Spain discovered medieval artifacts in bearded vulture nests, including a complete 13th-century esparto ...

Virtual Alchemy has announced Band of Crusaders, a strategy RPG set in a medieval Europe plagued by devils and twisted cults. It will be available for PC via Steam. A release date was not announced.

In medieval Europe, a rivalry between two assertive cultures — Christians and Jews, who both considered themselves “God’s Chosen People” — gave rise to modern antisemitism, argues Yale’s Ivan G.