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

Early music — the kind defined as being from the medieval, Renaissance and Baroque time periods — reminded Pamela Narbona Jerez of home. As a girl growing up in Santiago, Chile, she sang in the choir ...

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 ...

Entertainment Weekly goes back to the Dark Ages. There are almost too many medieval movies to count, and watching all of them would probably last you until the next Dark Age. Despite covering the same ...

Before our current, carbon-fueled global warming trend took off during the 20th century, the most consequential temperature bump in recorded history was the Medieval Warm Period. This week, scientists ...

Christopher Smith’s devious plague thriller stars Eddie Redmayne as a monk recruited by a knight (Sean Bean) to lead a group of soldiers to a village where rumor has it, someone is using witchcraft to ...