Christopher Smith’s devious plague thriller stars Eddie Redmayne as a monk recruited by a knight (Sean Bean) to lead a group of soldiers to a village where rumor has it, someone is using witchcraft to ...

The romance genre owes a major debt to the Middle Ages. That's where we get the word, the genre, and most of its tropes.

The medieval world wasn’t a tourist brochure of castles and courtly dances. It was raw, violent, often absurd, and deeply human. Picture muddy battlefields where armies clashed with swords that ...