Guides to life are a dime a dozen these days. From self-help books to lifestyle magazines, living well has become an obsession of society. But this wasn’t always the case. Hundreds of years ago, in ...

Medieval nun fakes death to escape convent and enjoy a life of carnal lust. Sounds like the basis for a juicy novel, but this really happened during the 14th century in England. Archivist and ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook “Death and the Miser” is a 1561 painting from Hieronymus Bosch that depicts a classical deathbed ...

A plague of serious proportions is ravaging the world. But not for the first time. From 1347-51, the Black Death killed anywhere from one-tenth to one-half (or more) of Europe’s population. One ...

In predicting the future, we often turn to our past experiences. Humanity has, after all, faced pandemics like this one before — many times, in fact — and few are as memorable and menacing as the ...