The Russian military is using "improvised cells" and medieval punishment techniques to clamp down on poor discipline, according to a new assessment. In the past few months, Russian commanders "have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists in England have uncovered gruesome evidence of a Medieval-era public punishment which occurred along the River ...

On Monday, March 6, at the Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality, four Medieval Studies academics led a group discussion among nearly 80 undergraduate, graduate, and Ph.D. students on “Why and ...

Hanging was a common medieval execution, but for certain criminals, punishment did not end with death. After execution, bodies were sometimes placed in iron cages known as gibbets and displayed in ...