Don't leave your family laundry lying around Dr. Nicholas Paul, unless your lineage goes back to the middle ages. Paul studies medieval noble families by reading the official histories those families ...

An international team of archaeologists used graveyards in Denmark to investigate social exclusion based on illness.

On a recent weekend, my wife and I took our kids to the annual Medieval Festival in a park near our apartment, in upper Manhattan. We couldn’t not go; it’s one of the biggest events of the year in our ...

Every historical period has its "zombie myths" - ideas so ingrained into the popular imagination that they're almost impossible to kill, ones that rear their ugly heads again and again, as if they've ...

One medieval ruling family repeatedly married within its own bloodline to preserve power and territory. Over generations, the ...

In the Middle Ages, names weren’t just personal—they were political, dynastic, and symbolic. This video explores how medieval families, especially nobility, used names to express status, continuity, ...

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