A CONCERT celebrating the legacy of Magna Carta will bring history to life through music.

One of the highlights of presenting it is hearing from listeners who tell me they never imagined this music could be for them ...

Palmetto Publishing has released Exceptional, a new middle grade novel by educator and musician Eric R. Thomas. The book follows four high school seniors who seize a rare opportunity to perform ...

Rick Steves shares his favorite places to learn about the bleak black arts used to extract confessions and punish criminals.

The 128th international tour of Scholares Minores has officially begun, and Michigan audiences are about to experience ...

Medieval torture was used both to extract confessions and to punish the convicted prior to execution. Torturers (who were often clergy) had a huge toolkit with which to practise their bleak black art.

In his first media interview in the Middle East this year, Hilton MEA president Guy Hutchinson tells Gulf Business why the hospitality giant remains bullish on the region’s long-term prospects ...

Probably not, but the concern itself suggests that modernity's acolytes are high on their own supply. For starters, it’s not at all clear that the phenomena for which she offers an explanation are ...

Anger’s in there somewhere, sure, a kind of generalized psychic road rage, but not enough of it to qualify. Same with envy, pride, gluttony, lust—just floating shards. Avarice? Nah. Of the seven, ...

Though films and TV series about the Middle Ages do not always attract the same level of love and critical praise as those set in other periods of history, there are still a number of notable films ...

At the Met Cloisters in Manhattan, paintings, statuettes and other objects demonstrate that human desire transcends time and cultures. The fictional tale of Phyllis and Aristotle, in which she gets ...

The idea of tourism is a relatively new one. In the medieval period, no one traveled for fun. In fact, most people never ventured further than twenty miles from their hometown. If they did, it was ...