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...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/29/medieval-manuscript-gives-clue-about-mysterious-radiation-spike/This funny medieval drawing of a knight engaged in battle with an enormous snail inspired Donna D. to look up other strange illuminations that apparently had very little to do with the manuscript they accompanied. Im...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/13/life-in-the-middle-ages/No matter how interested you are in history, you p... ...ou probably have still heard a lot about the Dark Ages , but much of that information, even the stuff you... ...on. Here are five commonly held beliefs about the Middle Ages that aren’t actually fact. Note: While the... ...the specific time perio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/02/29/five-common-misconceptions-about-the-middle-ages/One critical difference: the umpire has a halberd and is willing to use it. The Ghistelles Hours, a Fourteenth Century Flemish devotional manuscript, contains illustrations of people playing something that scholar Carl P...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/20/is-this-medieval-cricket/Christine de Pizan wrote Othea's Epistle to He... ...e Book of Knighthood was commissioned, written in Middle French and illustrated with miniatures. Sixteen o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/29/the-book-of-knighthood/Brabant is a province of Belgium. The Brabant Chronicle is a 14th-century manuscript by Jan Van Boendale. The chronicle was published in several updated versions and covers events of the area from around the year 600 to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/13/the-brabant-chronicle/Women have been obsessed with hairstyle since, wel... ..., for-ev-vuh. As you can see, even women from the Middle Ages liked their hair all done up fancy, as documented...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/22/hairstyles-of-the-middle-ages/A bottle has been unearthed in Greenwich, England that contains urine and objects believed to have been put there to combat witchcraft. It was completely corked, so the contents were available for analysis, unlike other...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/06/17th-century-witch-bottle/Just reading this article can be painful. It has d... ...he only thing available for what ailed you in the Middle Ages . It was not a pleasant time to be a patient, bu... ...ght get better. Surgeons in the early part of the Middle Ages were often monks because they had access to the b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/30/10-excruciating-medical-treatments-from-the-middle-ages/
