The influence of the genre we call “fantasy”, which often looks back to the medieval past in order to escape a techno-scientific future, means that the Middle Ages have rarely been associated with ...

If you love historical fiction, great news ... and Hamlet (the classic story of a medieval Danish king), today’s historical novels deal with all kinds of relevant issues, as well as the love ...

Inspired by a host of TV series such as “Game of Thrones”, the romanticized version of the fantasy world of castles and dragons has made its way into the modern bedroom.

Medieval historian Sylvain Piron said it ... Mosse said Peter Abelard was the beginning of modern historical fiction, but that Waddell's writing career was cut short by mental illness.