On today's episode, we're joined by Katherine Harvey, historian and author of The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages, to ...

Joining Kate today is Professor Jill Burke, author of How to be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female ...

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We have been going to the theater for centuries to watch storytelling, for the music, for the creativity.

Christmas in the Middle Ages was a religious festival rather than a secular holiday, and as such it was considered less significant than Easter. In England, as in many places, the Christmas ...

Ancient, repurposed parchments reveal hidden and forgotten traces of Iceland’s history. Iceland has a long and rich literary ...

Iceland has a long and rich literary tradition. With its 380,000 inhabitants, the country has produced many great writers, ...

Isidore of Seville preserved knowledge in the ‘Dark Ages’, earning him the title of patron saint of the internet. His work ...

Here are some fun facts and trivia tidbits about Dublin, Ireland's capital city Dublin has been the largest settlement on the island since the Middle Ages ... at the New Music Hall in Fishamble ...

Do you know the history of Twelfth Night? Here's how it came to be known as the start of the Carnival season in New Orleans.