Once upon a time, "trial by fire" was a literal trial, with literal fire. The idea was that if an accused criminal were subjected to mortal danger, such as a fire, divine intervention would save the truly innocent. These...

Samuel Lee of Prince Armory craf...  ...f Prince Armory crafted these fantastic medieval Batman and Aquaman custom leather suits...  ...- via Fashionably Geek Medieval Batman - Photo: Christina Mendenhall

This certainly looks like an ad for the film Monty...  ...d about 1305. Discarded Images is a collection of medieval illustrations and manuscript illuminations that c...

I am currently reading The Bear: History of a Fall...  ...ol and as a living creature in Europe, especially medieval Europe.Pastoureau describes how medieval intellectuals classified and described the Europe...  ...hat could not resemble him, but also because, for medieval sens...

Cursed cats! They are so fond of disrupting human...  ...are so fond of disrupting human work, especially medieval manuscript composition. In 1420, a scribe in what...

According to medieval legend, the land that is modern day Macedonia was...  ...tremely caustic excrement at a range of 291 feet. Medieval naturalists often relied on this description by R...

Jody Enders wrote in 1998 about a 1878 French account of a play performed in 1549, in which the dramatic onstage execution was no special effect, but used a condemned prisoner whose head was cut off onstage. Considering...

How can you know which pages in a medieval manuscript were the most popular? Kathryn Rudy of...

Wound Man, as he is known among the archivists at...  ...ng wounded in many, many different ways. But this medieval manuscript illustration of him was useful for tra...

Tree ring data indicates that sometime around 774 or 775 A.D., an intense burst of radiation hit the Earth. What was its source? Scientists were uncertain, but it was probably a supernova. Unfortunately, there were no re...