A couple hours into Misericorde: Volume 1, a murder mystery visual novel set in a convent in England in 1482, the nuns get into an argument about the process of slaughtering ducks for the evening’s ...

The medieval period gave us some of the greatest, most enduring stories in history. Some are of them were real – some are altered into pure Legend. These legends usually had somebody doing villainous ...

A letter from a medieval archbishop that researchers say reveals the motive behind a six century-old assassination. (Courthouse News via Hampshire Archives) (CN) — As sunset approached after evening ...

Hidden behind the battles and kings you learned about in school lies a chilling tale of betrayal, power, and an unsolved death. In this video, we unravel a real-life medieval murder mystery that ...

The untimely death in 1593 of Christopher Marlowe robbed English literature of one of its greatest dramatists - a man who mentored and influenced no lesser figure than William Shakespeare himself. But ...

The 1337 murder of the priest John Forde in the heart of medieval London was especially gruesome: one attacker slit Forde's throat with a dagger while two others stabbed him with "long knives" in the ...

London (CNN) — Oxford was the murder capital of late-medieval England, with the city’s male university population being the main catalyst for violence, according to new research. The homicide rate in ...