During the Middle Ages, disabled people were found in all parts of society. Those born into ordinary peasant families just ...

When many people think of the Medievals, they imagine castles and knights on white horses saving damsels in distress, or perhaps superstitious, backward-looking peasants, who’s only thought is to toil ...

Having gone right round the world in the course of this series, I think it is time to return to England. After all, that is ...

Akhteruzzaman Elias would often deconstruct novels as a literary form, emphasising the role of social realism in mastering ...

The legendary founder of Bread and Puppet Theater is 90 years old and rising. In December I went to interview Peter Schumann in his home in Glover ...

Deliverance II, which was not preceded by any serious information leaks or hype that the game was in active development. How ...

The protagonist evolves from a peasant to a legendary figure, while the game impresses with its realism and unique mechanics that accurately simulate life in the Middle Ages, making the experience ...

There’s almost an exotic, anomalous quality to its unyielding dedication to historical accuracy and how it ducks the lure of the fantasy tropes usually assigned to the Middle Ages. Like all ...

Continuing the relatively low-stakes tale of Henry of Skalitz, set in the Kingdom of Bohemia (modern Czech Republic) in 1403 during the high Middle Ages, our unlikely hero is now squire to the ...

During the Middle Ages a wooden cross stood at the spot ... that of the martyrdom of the missionary Bishop Henry at the hands of a Finnish peasant, was not written until a century after the events it ...