The Middle Ages sometimes called the Medieval Period lasted from the 5th to the ... there were a great many things that happened during this time. With no central authority to maintain order ...

Getting your period has long been a significant milestone ... But what was it like for women in the Middle Ages? Given what we know about medieval hygiene, it’s hard not to feel sympathy for ...

For some time, many of these looked to the medieval period as a moment of chivalry and knightly quest. More recently, however, popular culture set in the Middle Ages has leaned into the gritty and ...

The Arts in the Middle Ages, and at the Period of the Renaissance. By Paul Lacroix, Curator of the Imperial Library of the Arsenal, Paris. (London: Chapman and Hall, 1870.) ...

The most common method used by doctors in the Middle Ages was bloodletting. There were two methods of bloodletting – either a patient’s vein was opened and drained for a period of time ...