The Secret Lives of Medieval Executioners: Society’s Outcasts
Executioners upheld law and order, but their grim profession came with a heavy price.
Tag: Medieval
Cute squirrels gave medieval Britons leprosy. Or was it the other way around?
Genetic analysis clearly shows leprosy went from one species to the other. But the route is unclear.
Mysterious and indecipherable 600-year-old Voynich Manuscript may be partly about sex and ‘women’s secrets’
Some of the chapters may be coded gynecology texts, hidden to keep commoners away from this knowledge.
Horse archaeology shows London’s elite scouted horses from the entire continent
A new site in medieval England shows how different these special breeds were compared to “regular” horses.
A medieval scribe curses a cat for peeing on his manuscript
Cats ruining things: a tale as old as time.
The medieval elephant was partly horse, partly dog, totally hilarious
There were some pretty epic works of art made throughout the Middle Ages and especially the Renaissance. But these elephants ...
