From flowing capes and chainmail tunics to banquet-style dining and moody, medieval tablescapes, couples are embracing a ...

Historian Marc David Baer calls the Ottomans "very much a European empire" and "the unacknowledged part of the story the West ...

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The fear of witchcraft led to centuries of persecution and executions across Europe. While there were an estimated 500 executions in England, and between 3,000 and 4,000 killings in Scotland, only ...

Compared to the hard life of a medieval peasant the life of a monk must have been a doddle. Right? Well, no not really. Religion was at the heart of medieval life, and as it spread across Europe the ...

The daily life of a medieval peasant in England and elsewhere was extremely difficult, long, and busy. They faced endless days of manual labor working on farmland starting as early as three in the ...