While peasants washed their hands ... And that’s just Europe. During the thousand-year span of medieval times, China perfected the compass and invented navigation. African kingdoms at the ...

One of the most unifying elements of the Medieval Period was the Roman Catholic Church. All classes and ranks of people, ...

It’s ironic that it took the approval of a foreign emperor who had just conquered Napoleon to restore luxury status to ...

Oysters and escargot are recognised as luxury foods around the world – but they were once valued by the lower classes as ...

I joined many driven game hunts in Germany. Here's what I learned about the culture — and the skills required to be an ...

The notion that Manu Smriti verse 1.91 enforces servitude has been sustained by colonial scholars and contemporary critics ...

Spain’s confraternities often make headlines in the foreign press as their Holy Week processions have become a tourist ...

Curious what's happening with that cool-looking medieval zombie game that got revealed a couple of years back? Blight: Survival feels like a mix between Plague Tale, Hunt: Showdown, and Hood: Outlaws ...

To this end, she enlists writers and artists of the time, and sheds some light on the lives of lesser mortals. However, the ...

Medieval Bengal’s links to the Straits world, a narrow stretch of water connecting to Southeast Asia and beyond, are ...

The beliefs about food and health at the time resulted in some extremely odd diet choices. Click through this gallery to discover what it was really like for the average person in medieval Europe.