Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. The dream of the common person’s utopia was more than a little bit different during ...

How did people survive winter before central heating? Quite well, actually. Here's how to be more medieval peasant in the ...

I just got out of a hot shower, and am sipping a cup of hot chocolate while I listen to music on my iPhone in my heated apartment, while I write this article on a computer that allows me instant ...

When people belonging to peasant communities in late medieval Sweden prayed to God they usually stood up and put their palms together. That was how they displayed their devotion before God. This is ...

The knights in shining armor got down and dirty first day of the Riverdale Kiwanis Medieval Faire. Then, so did everyone else with peasants and a lot of others going barefoot in the mud. Torrential ...

Growing inequality has become one of the major political and economic concerns in the world as well as in America. The growing disparity of wealth today has many parallels with the unequal societies ...

If your lil' business has a lot of tired workers, there could be a good reason. A Stanford University professor says Americans are working longer hours than medieval peasants. "The amount of time we ...

Medieval England Twice as Well Off as Today’s Poorest Nations: The figure of $400 annually (as expressed in 1990 international dollars) is commonly is used as a measure of "bare bones subsistence" and ...

It turns out medieval peasants were just as worried about zombies as we are, and they never even saw Season 7 of the Walking Dead. A newly published study reveals that villagers in medieval Yorkshire, ...