Well-trained, heavily-armored knights represented a triumph of military might during the Middle Ages ..read more

Find out more about this ancient treatment’s long history ..read more

See how the elaborate battle armor worn by medieval knights developed and evolved ..read more

From a dancing plague to a laughing epidemic, the symptoms were clear—but the culprit was not ..read more

In the Middle Ages, the bubonic plague ravages Europe in one of the most deadly pandemics in human history ..read more

Christian knights waged a religious war against the Muslims in Jerusalem in an attempt to reclaim the Holy Land ..read more

In the realm of infectious diseases, a pandemic is the worst case scenario. When an epidemic spreads beyond a country’s borders, that’s when the disease officially becomes a pandemic. Communicable diseases existed during humankind’s hunter-gatherer days, but the shift to agrarian life 10,000 years ago created communities that made epidemics more possible. Malaria, tuberculosis, leprosy ..read more

The name the Hundred Years’ War has been used by historians since the beginning of the nineteenth century to describe the long conflict that pitted the kings and kingdoms of France and England against each other from 1337 to 1453. Two factors lay at the origin of the conflict: first, the status of the duchy ..read more

Who Were the Knights Templar? After Christian armies captured Jerusalem from Muslim control in 1099 during the Crusades, groups of pilgrims from across Western Europe started visiting the Holy Land. Many of them, however, were robbed and killed as they crossed through Muslim-controlled territories during their journey. Around 1118, a French knight named Hugues de ..read more