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Real Medieval Tournaments Medieval History / September 26, 2024 / medieval, warfare, weapons Medieval Tournaments really didn’t look like the way they often appear in pop culture, certainly not as they started out. Rather than being in an…
The Weighing Chair History of Science, Medieval History / September 22, 2023 / medicine, medieval And what, pray tell, is going on here? This macabre device is a 1694 illustration of the weighing chair of Sanctorius Sanctorius (1561-1636), an Italian…
Byzantine Painting “The Ladder of Divine Ascent” Byzantine History, Medieval History / October 7, 2024 / art, Central/late Middle Ages, Christian history, religion To me, this is a comical picture showing a bunch of men climbing up a ladder while devils try to grab them or shoot them…
Papal Palace at Avignon Live Reporting, Medieval History / November 20, 2023 / Christian history, medieval From 1309-1370, the central office of the papacy was not Rome, but the French city of Avignon. Petrarch bitingly referred to this situation as “the…
