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These illuminated medieval manuscripts give us a look into the minds of the monks who created them, and how they viewed sex, demons and...
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These illuminated medieval manuscripts give us a look into the minds of the monks who created them, and how they viewed sex, demons and...
As British colonialist expansion brought traders, whalers and missionaries to the South Pacific, gruesome tales of cannibalism among the savage natives they encountered began...
“In the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that...
There are many fascinating museums in this world, but one that is near the top of my list to visit is the Mittelalterliches Kriminalmuseum...
One of the aspects of Christianity I’ve always found the most ironic is its obsession with death, hell and the destruction of the earth....
While today we put the exploits of the most disrespectful, ill-mannered, drunken and depraved people we can find on TV to laugh at and...
via Lazer Horse The Hortus deliciarum is a medieval, illuminated encyclopedia compiled by Herrad of Landsberg at the Hohenburg Abbey in Alsace. Herrad’s work...
Alchemy was not just a scientific practice – one of weighing, measuring, combining, testing and creating – it was also a spiritual practice, and...
In the mid-1300s, approximately one quarter of the world’s population succumbed to the Black Death; 30-60% of Europe’s population lost their lives in a...
By Matthew Schulz via spiegel.de Was the cradle of civilization also the birthplace of atrocity? Historians have been researching the most extreme forms of...