HBO's House of the Dragon premiere drew 10 million viewers, the largest audience for any new original series in the history of the network. The show, a prequel of the hit Game of Thrones series, is ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “House of the Dragon” debuted with its metaphorical medieval guns akimbo, with a graphic C-section, jousting tournament, and a ...
New research reveals a forgotten side of medieval Christianity—one rooted not in cathedrals, but in fields, forests, and farms. Historian Dr. Krisztina Ilko uncovers how the Augustinian order built ...
Whenever a fantasy story treads too far into gruesome violence or plain old human exploitation, storytellers like to trot out four little words: “But it’s historically accurate.” That was the ...
A stained-glass window depicting Empress Matilda's voyage from England to Normandy Andreas F. Borchert via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 In three decades of teaching medieval European history, ...
Every generation seems to see something different in Europe’s Middle Ages, the centuries following the collapse of the Roman Empire in the 5th century A.D. To Renaissance scholars, it was a benighted ...
LAKE ORION, MI – Guests are invited to journey back in time this summer when Medieval times come to life in Oakland County. Sword fights, fire eaters, jesters, shops and a life-sized dragon are among ...
When scenic artist Rohan Harris received his creative brief for the Game of Thrones spinoff House of the Dragon, he was told little about the show, which concluded its debut season in October—only ...
Aug. 2 (UPI) --Students in my medieval history courses often wonder whether historical reality can be gleaned from medieval cinematic fantasy. I tell them that fantasy does not aspire to historical ...