Take three or four weasel testicles and half a handful of young mouse-ear [a plant] and burn it all equally in an earthenware ...

Why medieval couples thought weasel testicles could cure infertility - It wasn’t merely superstition or ‘blind ...

This book examines the texts and images of ... A first group of essays gives an overview of medieval cartography and illustrates the methods of cartographers. Another analyzes world maps and travel ...

A new kind of kingdom needed a new kind of queen. The millennium-old and largely forgotten Mathilda of Flanders is being ...

This book showcases the variety and vitality of contemporary ... and textual remains of the Viking Age are given new meanings in the present. Northern Medieval World 6, ISBN 978-150151-815-7 ...

Dating to the year 700 CE, the Afghan Liturgical Quire is on view at the Jewish Theological Seminary Library's exhibit, ...

For over 400 years, this fragile remnant of a celebrated medieval story lay undisturbed and unnoticed, repurposed as a book cover by Elizabethans ... copies in the world – has been discovered ...

Drawn a single sheet of vellum, the Mappa Mundi reflects the medieval church with Jerusalem at the centre of the worldThe Hereford Mappa Mundi is an outstanding treasure of the medieval world ...

An introductory survey course on the history of Medieval Europe examining the development and long term influence of its political institutions, society and culture. The fourth number of the course ...

But after rejecting the world and spending 47 years living naked ... an unknown author just over a millennium ago, it became the medieval equivalent of a blockbuster, copied multiple times and ...