Challenging word-based games are not a modern invention. In fact, in early medieval England, around the year 1000, there was also a strong appetite for word puzzles designed to entertain (and ...

Our corporeal nature is recognized as a worthy tool to strive for spiritual perfection. The candelabra (menorah) produces light and is logically associated with the eyes. The same message applies: the ...

A fragile 13th century manuscript fragment, hidden in plain sight as the binding of a 16th-century archival register, has been discovered in Cambridge and revealed to contain rare medieval stories of ...

The package features a stormy hillside, a dollhouse, a candelabra, a red X on a tree, and a purple wizard hat. Judges guessed various celebrities, including Lea Michele, Lindsay Lohan, and Ashanti ...

And these roots – where we can identify them from the sparse medieval and Early Modern sources – express Christian beliefs and practices. The medieval roots of ‘Mothering Sunday’ There is no simple ...

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More than 4,000 spectators, including many in Middle Ages garb, stepped into the faux-medieval world of Kryal Castle in Ballarat to watch jousting's answer to the cricket's Ashes rivalry.

During yesterday’s event, the magazine added, the pair “exchanged handwritten vows in a forest ceremony featuring a series of gold candelabra at the altar, an aisle lined with white roses and ...

She even had JPEGs of the fancy medieval tapestries to prove it, with scenes of death by unicorn disembowelment and all. But they refused to listen. “I grew up around New York in the suburbs and ...

Health and disease in the medieval world – and how our ancestors sought to cure everything from infertility to constipation – are the focus of a major new exhibition opening on 29 March 2025 at ...

The Cambridge University Library exhibition, Curious Cures: Medicine In The Medieval World, showcases medieval manuscripts detailing treatments ranging from the commonplace to the truly peculiar ...

At least until an archivist took another look, setting off a yearslong project to identify and then reassemble the medieval manuscript, which someone in Tudor England had taken apart and used to ...