Lately worn by Kim Kardashian and Jennie of Blackpink, the cape can carry royal and religious associations, or recall ...

Scholars of Scandinavian studies at the Cluster of Excellence are investigating cultural memories of pre-Christian Nordic ...

Long before stories of full moons and silver bullets, the Greeks told a far older tale of the first man cursed to become a ...

Medieval medical practices were mostly based on superstition ... In a world where science couldn't explain most phenomena, ...

Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser confirmed that the studio considered a game set in the Middle Ages. The proposed idea, which included knights and mythological elements, remained in the discussion ...

What if, instead of archery, green hoods, and the Sheriff of Nottingham, it were about a story of rebellion's roots and identity, and the blurred lines between loyalty and justice?

Hear ye! Hear ye! A new history fact has been debunked! According to bubo-bursting research by the German Museum of Medicine ...

The medieval period often gets painted as a thousand years of darkness, filth, and ignorance. Popular culture loves to show us dirty peasants wallowing in mud, superstitious fools who thought the ...

Among the most popular books of the time, bestiaries were filled with real and mythical animals and their lore, the ...

Simon Marsh said the database would broaden understanding of historic sites related to the War of the Roses [Kate Bradbrook/BBC] A new database documenting monuments to a 15th Century English conflict ...