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 ...

Visitors to Dutch and German bathhouses in the late Middle Ages emerged from such spaces cleansed of more than just their grime: They also received basic medical care from “baders,” bathhouse ...