It all began in Switzerland, with an area of lush agricultural land, and became a dynasty that dominated Southeast Europe for centuries. The Habsburg's rise to power in the High Middle Ages and its ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. When Kathleen Walker-Meikle, a historian at the University of Basel, in Switzerland, ponders the Middle Ages, her mind tends to drift not to religious conquest ...

Forget your modern notions of privacy, sleeping in the Middle Ages was a shared experience. From family cottages to inns with ...