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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Far smaller and far slower social changes in earlier periods triggered civil wars, rebellions, and violent intellectual and spiritual crises. The extreme social transformations of this century have ...

From young girls to grandmothers, from peasant women to nuns, including noble ladies, it is an entire world—long overlooked—that is only now being rediscovered. In the Middle Ages, a young woman’s ...

No, you’re not hallucinating from too much sun – it’s Castle Otttis, St. Augustine’s hidden gem that’s about to rock your world. “Hogwarts, Florida campus?” Nope, it’s Castle Otttis! This stone ...