The story of two cults who set up shop in a small Donegal village at completely different times has resurfaced online and people can't get over it.

Mass hysteria? Ergot poisoning? Or just despair? Here’s why what started as one woman’s dance spiraled into one of history’s ...

Demography is a particularly murky corner of early medieval history, but we know that between 500 and 1000 there was a trend ...

Life for medieval peasants was grueling — dawn-to-dusk labor with little rest. But when work was done, they turned to music, games, and festivals to find joy ...

Once a crucial caravan stop on the Silk Road, Khiva is one of Central Asia’s best-preserved medieval settlements. The Uzbek ...

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 ...

These days, it’s easy to take cleanliness for granted — we can shower whenever we please and choose from an endless array ...

Known as the 'White City,' this historic fortressed town in Puglia is an excellent base for exploring Italy's southern region ...

From one vantage point, it was the last of the great medieval peasant revolts; from another, it was an early, albeit defeated, bourgeois revolution. Lyndal Roper’s comprehensive study, Summer of Fire ...