Step into the world of medieval medicine as we explore the tools doctors and surgeons used during the Middle Ages. From bone saws to bloodletting instruments, we take a closer look at the often brutal ...

The “Dark Ages” is a misnomer. The period between Antiquity and the Renaissance, known as the Middle Ages, saw amazing advances in art, science, and philosophy. Around 1300, scholars in Europe ...

Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a period of massive social change, burgeoning nationalism, international conflict, terrible natural disaster, climate change, rebellion ...

An illustration of a Medieval doctors examining the abdomen of a patient. There were very few doctors in the Middle Ages. Training to be a doctor could take years of study and, at the time ...

But Mr Halcomb laments that for many outside his community, the Middle Ages gets an unduly bad rap. The modern world "suffers from the Hollywood view [that it's all] dim, dark peasants with no ...

The seemingly fantastical world of the Middle Ages has held western popular culture in fascination since (at least) its nostalgic reimagining by Victorian antiquarians. Unfortunately, there is ...