Introducing a brand new column on The Public Medievalist: Games!
On April 15, the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris burned. A medievalist recounts why the Cathedral, and the fire, meant so much to her.
Pop-culture vikings are often butch masculine stereotypes. The real vikings were often anything but.
We all know werewolves as legendary figures that periodically fly into an unstoppable rage. What you may not know is that in the Middle Ages this was often a metaphor for domestic violence.
Knight Fight is HISTORY's new reality show where men club each other with pseudo-medieval weapons. What could be wrong with that?
One of Wikipedia's Editors of the Week stops by to share how you (yes you) can change how people understand history.
Ads sell us an image of ourselves. So what are they selling to men when that image is medieval?
Fairy tales are not known for being progressive. But one from 1901 is remarkably gender-affirming, featuring a trans man as a chivalric hero.
Just in time for Christmas; did you know that Mary is revered in Islam as well as in Christianity? And more, the status of Mary offers a window into something you might expect: that women being respected religious scholars has a long tradition in Islam.