The dripping of water. The skittering of rats. And the tortured moans of the people imprisoned there. During the Middle Ages, medieval torture devices made life for anyone accused of a crime — ...

The Spanish Donkey, also called the “chevalet” or simply the “wooden horse,” was one of the cruelest of the medieval torture devices. Thought to have emerged during the Holy Inquisition in ...

What are the best medieval games? Rare is a videogame that doesn’t feature at least one sword, suit of armor, or roast chicken. Still, they’re usually mixed in with bearded hermits slinging ...

CLINTON — The Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, 198 College Hill Road, will host the exhibition “Menagerie: Animals in Art” from Saturday, Sept. 7 to June 8, 2025. This exhibit will ...

Many mainstream economic historians do believe the average number of working days for peasant laborers in England hovered around, and even sometimes below, 150 days per year for certain stretches ...

After years of painstaking work, Rabbi Shem Tov Ibn Gaon finished the illustrated manuscript in 1312 Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent A 700-year-old Hebrew Bible from medieval Spain is expected to ...

In the 1940s, a hoard of 5,000 silver coins was found in Breisgau, but despite Glotteral being known as a medieval mining Mecca, until now, no coins had been found here.

Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Kerice Doten-Snitker studies how government-sanctioned violence in medieval Germany diffused from one community to another. More specifically, she wants to know what ...

Many mainstream economic historians do believe the average number of working days for peasant laborers in England hovered around, and even sometimes below, 150 days per year for certain stretches ...

I can guarantee you that a zombie survival game called God Save Birmingham wasn't on your "2024 Video Game Announcements" bingo card. It takes place in 14th century England, and tasks you with fending ...

Lerer, Seth 1996. The Wiles of a Woodcut: Wynkyn de Worde and the Early Tudor Reader. Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 59, Issue. 4, p. 381.

Bydén, Börje 2018. The Parva naturalia in Greek, Arabic and Latin Aristotelianism. Vol. 17, Issue. , p. 1. The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy comprises over fifty specially commissioned ...