Nothing calls to mind nonsensical treatments and bizarre religious healing rituals as easily as the notion of Dark Age ...

One of the most misunderstood periods of history is the Middle Ages, which ranged from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century to the start of the Renaissance in the 15th century or so ...

Two unrelated young people buried in cemeteries in England in the Early Middle Ages probably had grandparents from West Africa. How and when their relatives arrived in Britain is unknown, but the ...

In the beginning was the mob, and the mob was bad. In Gibbon’s 1776 “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” the Roman mob makes regular appearances, usually at the instigation of a demagogue, loudly ...