Ever wonder what it feels like to walk through a battlefield where history once unfolded? Historical reenactments offer that ...

An extraordinary archaeological discovery in Poland sheds new light on the earliest medieval rulers and the symbolism of ...

The order of the Knights Templar was officially founded in 1119 AD by a group of nine prominent knights, led by Hugues de Payens (Hugo de Paganis). Besides Payens, the other knights were recorded as ...

Games are often played as an escape, and what could be more different from the technology and screens of the modern world than the tranquility of rural medieval life? While some medieval games focus ...

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Chivalry wasn't dead in 1938 when Nazi tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia. It lived on in at least one man: Josef Menčík, also known as the "Knight of Strakonice." Once described as "the definition of ...

Few weapons in the annals of military history have left as indelible a mark as the trebuchet. A masterpiece of engineering and ingenuity, this formidable siege engine has witnessed the rise and fall ...

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Three new books about the history of warfare have much to tell us. By Thomas E. Ricks Military historians have long taught that how a society fights is linked to how it produces. In most agrarian ...

A stained-glass window depicting Empress Matilda's voyage from England to Normandy Andreas F. Borchert via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 In three decades of teaching medieval European history, ...

Starring English-speakers Ben Foster and Michael Caine, Petr Jakl’s big-budget spectacle offers a satisfying blend of history lesson and brutal combat. Zizka was a famously innovative military ...