There’s something about winter that automatically puts the brain in medieval mode. Maybe it’s the Game of Thrones conditioning (“winter is coming,” etc.). Maybe it’s the constant consumption of soup ...

The medieval world wasn’t a tourist brochure of castles and courtly dances. It was raw, violent, often absurd, and deeply human. Picture muddy battlefields where armies clashed with swords that ...

From filthy peasants to nonstop witch hunts, movies have shaped a very wrong idea of medieval life. Here’s what the Middle Ages were actually like.

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