The Middle Ages of Europe were really nothing like the Middle Ages of Hollywood. Life was difficult, dirty, and dangerous.

In between the fall of the Roman Empire and the birth of the Italian Renaissance, Western Europe economically stagnated and culturally declined in what are commonly called the Dark Ages. This ...

Creatures out of the Dark Ages have come marching into the present. Anyone aware of what was happening not only in England but across Europe, North Africa, and Asia in the summer of 1941—and ...