This film explores European life from 1200 to 1500, highlighting the significance of art in documenting this era. It discusses the three main institutions of medieval Europe: the Church, the ...

S weden’s Teenage Engineering calls its beautifully crafted EP–1320 medieval “the world’s first medieval electronic instrument.” The device features hundreds of sounds and samples from ...

Until now, historians placed the invention of the bra with either French corset-maker Herminie Cadolle in the late 1700s, ... There were some medieval texts that referred to bra-like garments ...

The iconic image of a witch on a broomstick has apocryphal origins. But whether they could actually fly didn’t stop Christian society from persecuting them.

In my work as a scholar of medieval European history, I have researched texts describing witchcraft in the early 1400s. Some texts fully accepted the idea that witches flew, often on brooms or staffs.