The Rack is one of the most infamous torture devices in history – and for good reason. In this video, we uncover how it worked, who it was used on, and why it became the terrifying symbol of medieval ...

Halley Feiffer (above left, with John Pankow) does her best with the unfunny “Medieval Play,” but the audience may want to take advice from “Monty Python” and run away. Joan Marcus The witless ...

You could probably direct one of these scenes yourself, so ingrained have the tropes of the medieval battle become in the mind of the moviegoer. These days, any film even vaguely set in a medieval ...