The Middle Ages are defined as the period between the years 500 and 1500 in Europe. They're also sometimes referred to as the ...

More recently, however, popular culture set in the Middle Ages has leaned into the gritty and grimy aesthetic, demonstrating how flexible this particular period remains and the many things it has ...

But this aesthetic taps into the medieval period with its dark, gothic, and brooding visual language," Mia Jacobs, a youth fashion strategist at WGSN, a consumer trend forecasting company, told ...