Learn how volcanic eruptions in 1345 started a chain of events that allowed the plague to enter Europe and start the Black ...

A surprising study has uncovered a link between a massive volcanic eruption in 1345 and the onset of the Black Death, Europe's deadliest pandemic. The discovery reveals how a catastrophic chain of ...

Who was the very worst of all the Medieval monarchs? No spoilers but we've got monarchs driven psychopathic by love, terrible sadists, and egos that straddled a continent. They were the worst of the ...

Unpredictable weather in late medieval Europe disrupted agricultural stability, forcing cities to rely on maritime grain ...

Archaeology reveals that a millennium ago, North America was home to thriving urban centres as large and sophisticated as ...

Medieval Europe was so wacky: the Roman Empire fell, the Renaissance started, a lot of people colonized a lot of lands and caused irreparable harm, the Crusades happened, and then the Black Plague ...

My students tend to imagine the Middle Ages as something like the “Kingdom Come” or “Total War” video games: an age of utter political chaos, when swords and daggers ruled, and masculinity and ...

It turns out the Dark Ages weren't all that dark. According to new research, medieval medicine was way more sophisticated than previously thought, and some of its remedies are trending today on TikTok ...

In Death and the Miser, a Dutch painting from around 1490, a hideous skeletal figure—a medieval version of the grim reaper—comes knocking at a man’s bedroom door. As death watches, the dying miser ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. In Grand Ages: Medieval, European cities are where they should be, and borders align according to the history books. From there, things can go in your ...