There’s a photograph of a young Linette Withers, aged just seven or eight, staring at a medieval chains library in complete ...

Scholarship of medieval literature and historical records reveals how transgender people transitioned even without a robust medical system – instead, they changed their clothes, name and social ...

What are the best medieval games? Rare is a videogame that doesn’t feature at least one sword, suit of armor, or roast chicken. Still, they’re usually mixed in with bearded hermits slinging ...

In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the publication of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Return of the King," the third book in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, Medieval & Renaissance Studies will be ...

We’ve picked some of our favorite medieval games available to play now, from the realistic to the preposterous. This list isn’t necessarily ranked in any particular order. All of them are ...

texts were unheard of? One lucky medieval maiden got to live the dream when she sent her betrothed what experts believe might be the very first Valentine. Well… the first in English, at least.

New accounts of working in a man’s world — and that world’s comeuppance — are long on boldface names and even longer on personality. By Joshua David Stein What started as a scholarly ...

In Charlotte McConaghy’s novel, a family races against time as ferocious storms batter their island in the vast southwestern Pacific Ocean. In ‘It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time,’ comedy ...

Comics have been bringing joy to people for over a century, but how we read them is always changing. Whether it was the change from buying comics at newsstands to having a pull list at your local ...

Most medieval surnames were derived from a person’s occupation. Aristocratic families often carried grand surnames tied to land ownership and legacy. Common folk had names reflecting their trade or ...