(Photo by the Royal Library)What will the new year...  ...the Royal Library)What will the new year be like? Medieval science informs us with precise accuracy. In the...  ...he new year. This year, that's a Friday. The blog Medievalists quotes the manuscript:If the first of January com...

A couple of years ago, we showed you an illuminati...  ...we showed you an illumination of Yoda found in a medieval manuscript. Then there was another one. It turns...  ...'t the only depictions of Star Wars characters in medieval literature. After all, it was a long time ago, ev...  ...en races. See them at the...

There is a myth that medical science did not progr...  ...ts history and culture. Anyway, some believe that medieval physicians only relied on ancient knowledge passe...  ...pital and befriended.While many of the cures that medieval doctors came up were terrifying and often useless...  ...out the medical experim...

Did you ever imagine that you’d see a &ldquo...  ...uo; list like this? It’s not so much that a medieval monk drew a cat in the margins of an illuminated...

We all know about dragons, mermaids, and unicorns, but there are plenty of other fantastical beasts handed down through the centuries that don’t get as much as today. Yes, our ancestors had documented bestiaries fu...

When you and your mate are having beef and the o...  ...settle it is... pic.twitter.com/E6lsiVtvhO— Medieval Reactions (@ MedievalReacts ) March 27, 2015 It’s Friday night and it&r...  ...experience like? You can Snapchat it or just use Medieval manuscript illustrat...

The world’s oldest complete deck of playing cards comes to us from the 15th century. The Flemish Hunting Deck, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has four suites (hunting horns, dog collars, hound tethers, and...

We’ve seen some pretty unusual things that p...  ...ve seen some pretty unusual things that pop up in medieval religious manuscripts. Now it appears that one fe...  ...ago in a galaxy far, far away. Julian Harrison of Medieval Manuscripts told NPR:"The Yoda image comes from a...  ...to say that it really w...

(Photo: British Library)Pictured above is Bald’s Leechbook, a 10th Century Latin and Anglo-Saxon manuscript owned by the British Library. It’s a reference manual for what passed for pharmaceutical science at...

It’s true; I have never heard of any of thes...  ...true; I have never heard of any of these fabulous medieval creatures before. The descriptions all compare pa...  ...ent."All these weird animals are illustrated with medieval art. You’ll need to scroll right on the pos...  ...e post instead of the p...