Bald’s Leechbook is an Anglo-Saxon medical text from the 9th century. In 2015 one of the recipes (it used garlic, a bronze pot, and bile from a cow, among other things) was found to be successful in treating MRSA.
Medieval people from every social status played games, but wealthy ladies and gentlemen had the resources for specialer ones. The first image you see here…
The Knights of the Round Table, part of the adventurers of the Medieval Arthurian legends, included the nobleman featured here in this manuscript from about…