GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The Total War strategy games combine turn-based strategy with real-time tactical battles. In other words, you can manage a mighty empire on a map and ...

The skeletal remains of a medieval anchoress — essentially a religious hermit — buried in an unusual, crouched position at a church site in England died with syphilis and arthritis, archaeologists ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. In our initial Q&A for Medieval 2: Total War, project director Bob Smith revealed many details regarding Creative Assembly and Sega's upcoming sequel ...

Church and State are often depicted as natural enemies. Well, aren’t they? Consider the classics A Man for All Seasons and Becket. Henry II and Henry VIII embody the power of an absolute State, while ...

Medieval Christianity seems dark and foreign—until you take a closer look. The medieval world conjures up all sorts of images, but it’s the unusual ones that often stick in our minds: a woman kneeling ...

In the past twenty years, especially, many books have been written on women in the Middle Ages. The editors have selected ten of these volumes that provide a helpful introduction or general study: ...