Freud disliked biographies, but he made an exception for Leonardo in a 1910 essay that explored the polymath's childhood and ...

Troll Lord Games month continues as Jeff takes a look inside the newest edition of the Castles & Crusades: Codex of Aihrde.

The Shem Tov Bible is described as “a tour de force of biblical and kabbalistic scholarship and a precious witness to the medieval tradition of Sephardic ... citing the Hilleli codex, a legendary, ...

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 ...

The Voynich Manuscript is a mystery that continues to baffle the most esteemed philologists. Voynich Manuscript is a ...

Let’s take a look at this and other common fallacies about the Middle Ages, from what caused the downfall of feudalism to medieval people’s bathing habits, adapted from an episode of Misconceptions on ...

Head of project A3-6 Religious Buildings Change their Identity: Iberia 711–1609 Head of project B2-24 From Manuscript to Printing Press: The Illustrated Book in Jewish Culture (Fourteenth–Sixteenth ...

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 ...

In 1481, a mysterious figure emerged from the desert in Benghazi. The man, exhausted and delirious after having survived a ...

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 ...