One of the best things about your day today is not waking up to ergot poisoning. Unfortunately, this condition caused great suffering to many throughout…
By the Early Modern period in England, many people associated witches with their accompanying animals called “familars.” At the bottom of this woodcut you can…
The 13th-century Morgan Bible has some of the best Medieval illustrations for trebuchets, the missile-launchers that shot artillery using a beam that would cast stones…
