Beneath castles, cities, and fields lies one of the most mysterious tunnel systems of the Middle Ages. In this video, we explore who may have built it, what it was used for, and why so many questions ...

The Middle Ages, usually dated from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, were a period of striking contrasts. Castles rose ...

The figure of the fool walked off the margins of medieval manuscripts into the unholy courts of the Renaissance, then returned to the page as Hamlet’s Yorick. Later, in the age of reason and democracy ...