Italian Carabinieri look as firefighters work to rescue a construction worker from under the debris of the partially ...

In the riverside town of Vidin in Bulgaria, I was briefly king of the castle. I had the medieval citadel to myself. Looming ...

And let's not forget those brutal punishments that make horror movie scenes seem tame. The Medieval period, often idealized ...

In many medieval towns, public bathhouses were common, especially from the 12th to the 15th centuries. Men and women (sometimes together, sometimes separately) bathed in large wooden tubs filled with ...