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Bruges, Belgium, is one of those rare European cities where history doesn’t merely feel like something you passively observe ...

Central Europe has long been a crossroads of cultures, where Eastern and Western influences collide in fascinating ways. From ...

For illustrators in medieval Europe, depicting animals like elephants that they’d never set eyes on was a key part of their task to shape the morality of humankind. What mattered most was what such ...

One of the major realizations of the Anthropocene era has been the importance of biodiversity for the functioning of the ...

Underwater archaeologists from Nicolaus Copernicus University have recovered four exceptionally well-preserved medieval spears from Lake Lednica in western Poland, including one ornately decorated ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. In Grand Ages: Medieval, European cities are where they should be, and borders align according to the history books. From there, things can go in your ...

In Death and the Miser, a Dutch painting from around 1490, a hideous skeletal figure—a medieval version of the grim reaper—comes knocking at a man’s bedroom door. As death watches, the dying miser ...

While scholars like Copernicus undoubtedly learned from the Islamic world, this was a two-way street, stressed Morrison.