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Looking for alternative wellness hacks? Current social media trends strangely resemble medieval cures.
It turns out the Dark Ages weren't all that dark. According to new research, medieval medicine was way more sophisticated ...
Entering a period called the High Middle Ages, it was a time of growing innovation, trade and travel. Christianity was dominant, and people celebrated their faith by building great structures.
Installation view of The Fantasy of the Middle Ages at the Getty Center. Pictured: “Dragon in Bestiary” (c. 1270), “Sinbad the Sailor” In One Thousand and One Nights (Egypt, 1700s), and ...
The Middle Ages Modern aesthetic is both darkness and magical thinking; of the past yet also of our own imagining. Perhaps, after a shared transit through hardship, we’re all planting the seeds ...
Why was there no Middle Ages in Mexico? It turns out the answer is a really simple one, as our expert historian explains.
Doctors in the Middle Ages did not have access to the advanced knowledge that we do. So what did they know? Find out in this 3rd level BBC Bitesize article.