The story of the Black Death has always been a mix of science, memory, and myth, but historians now argue that one misread ...

Rats? Children? The Mongols? The Black Death swept across the world with terrifying speed, but who (or what) was really to ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - You can't quarrel with that title, "Black Death." The film is black all right, pitch black, and death is everywhere. The story is set in 1348, after all, when the ...

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Through modern science, the grim discovery of a Medieval woman's remains is able to tell the tale of a "coffin birth" and ancient brain surgery. Despite the macabre nature of the grim discovery of a ...

In medieval England, peasants on some estates were entitled to a range of sick, annual and bereavement leave that could rival ...

Many mainstream economic historians do believe the average number of working days for peasant laborers in England hovered around, and even sometimes below, 150 days per year for certain stretches of ...