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 ...

Since ancient times, dragons existed in different cultures as indomitable creatures or signs of good luck. But when these fascinating beings took center stage in Christian myths and iconography, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...