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 verisimilitude.

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 ...

Have you seen 'Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves yet? If you’ve not heard, the movie is heading towards a $40 million box office opening, and for good reason. Games-to-film adaptations have ...

In this episode of In the Kitchen with Matt, I share a video about our 5th Annual Medieval Feast and Dungeons and Dragons ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The British Library is commemorating St. George’s Day with an extraordinary gallery of dragon illustrations culled from its digitized medieval manuscript collection. The online bestiary reveals ...

A Tudor-styled home, typical of the late medieval and early Renaissance eras, sits on 52 acres nestled in the hills of Rockland Township along a dirt country lane. What made this home stand out were ...

TO where did Furio flee after he left “The Sopranos”? Apparently, he fled to Calabria, in the “toe” of Italy, where he became Marco Polo and ventured to the Far East in the 13th century to forge a ...

Every 4th of July holiday weekend for the past 9 years my siblings and some friends and I get together and put on a huge ...