Whenever a fantasy story treads too far into gruesome violence or plain old human exploitation ... on protecting mothers from harm,” medieval history scholar Sara McDougall told Slate.

Some fictional medieval animals ... The manticore had a lion’s body and, often, a human face; as one 13th-century scholar put ...

The audience howled. This is the world of modern medieval battle, a human demolition derby where men and women wearing up to 100 pounds of armor slash and hammer one another with blunted steel ...

110 Medieval Ecocriticisms (2): Human and Non-Human. The paper by Charlotte Goddu has ... Additionally, Kandace Brill Lombart is an independent scholar. 335 Cistercian Sermons. The presider is Marsha ...

The Medieval Period ... an Italian doctor and scholar, suggested that epidemics may come from pathogens outside the body. He proposed that these might pass from human-to-human by direct or ...

Rapunzel doesn’t have anything on this damsel in distress. A British scholar who spent seven hours trapped inside a medieval tower freed herself Thursday using just an eyeliner pen and a cotton ...

In medieval Europe, a rivalry between two assertive cultures ... The idea of the insides of a human body being somehow identified with God struck Jews as being funny, but also sad because it was the ...

You can get in touch with Aristos by emailing a.georgiou@newsweek.com. Languages: English, Spanish A study of medieval human remains from a castle in Spain has unraveled fascinating insights into ...

Most people don't get excited about intestinal parasite eggs preserved in 500-year-old human feces ... started digging into the remnants of a medieval latrine in Bruges, they knew who to call.

But we rarely speak of what caused this immigration — the Spanish Inquisition. Hèléne Jawhara Piñer is a French-Spanish scholar whose focus is medieval history and the history of food. Her ...