For centuries, some of Europe’s most shocking killings survived only as whispers in parchment and bone, their victims reduced to nameless skulls and half-told chronicles. Now, a new generation of ...

It may be a coincidence that a new television adaptation of Umberto Eco’s 1980 medieval ecclesiastic detective novel “The Name of the Rose” begins the same week that HBO’s “Game of Thrones” finished ...

Pentiment might seem a little stuffy from the outset. It’s set in a small medieval town in Bavaria with historical detail and religious scripture so accurate that Simon Schama would approve. The ...