Once upon a time, "trial by fire" was a literal trial, with literal fire. The idea was that if an accused criminal were subjected to mortal danger, such as a fire, divine intervention would save the truly innocent. These...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/20/A-History-of-Trial-By-Ordeal/
Samuel Lee of Prince Armory craf... ...f Prince Armory crafted these fantastic medieval Batman and Aquaman custom leather suits... ...- via Fashionably Geek Medieval Batman - Photo: Christina Mendenhall
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/17/Medieval-Batman-and-Aquaman/
This certainly looks like an ad for the film Monty... ...d about 1305. Discarded Images is a collection of medieval illustrations and manuscript illuminations that c...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/14/Discarded-Images/
I am currently reading The Bear: History of a Fall... ...ol and as a living creature in Europe, especially medieval Europe.Pastoureau describes how medieval intellectuals classified and described the Europe... ...hat could not resemble him, but also because, for medieval sens...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/25/Medieval-Fact-Bears-Are-Humans-Closest-Relatives-among-Animals/
Cursed cats! They are so fond of disrupting human... ...are so fond of disrupting human work, especially medieval manuscript composition. In 1420, a scribe in what...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/22/Medieval-Manuscript-Peed-on-by-a-Cat/
According to medieval legend, the land that is modern day Macedonia was... ...tremely caustic excrement at a range of 291 feet. Medieval naturalists often relied on this description by R...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/07/The-Bonnacons-Primary-Defense-Was-a-Powerful-One/
Jody Enders wrote in 1998 about a 1878 French account of a play performed in 1549, in which the dramatic onstage execution was no special effect, but used a condemned prisoner whose head was cut off onstage. Considering...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/04/Medieval-Snuff-Drama/
How can you know which pages in a medieval manuscript were the most popular? Kathryn Rudy of...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/20/The-Most-Popular-Pages-in-Medieval-Manuscripts/
Wound Man, as he is known among the archivists at... ...ng wounded in many, many different ways. But this medieval manuscript illustration of him was useful for tra...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/09/02/Wound-Man/
Tree ring data indicates that sometime around 774 or 775 A.D., an intense burst of radiation hit the Earth. What was its source? Scientists were uncertain, but it was probably a supernova. Unfortunately, there were no re...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/29/medieval-manuscript-gives-clue-about-mysterious-radiation-spike/
