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Medieval medicine combined science, tradition, and superstition. Recovered manuscripts reveal potions to balance humors, healing ointments, lizard shampoo, astrological diagrams, and rituals with...

LARP (Live Action Role Play) is a form of play in which participants portray characters in real time within fictional or historical worlds. More than just a game, it combines theater, narrative, a...

In Norse mythology, draugar are the walking dead: animated corpses with superhuman strength and a thirst for revenge. Feared for their power and anger, they inhabited burial mounds and attacked th...

Historical archery spans thousands of years of human ingenuity, from primitive flint arrows to powerful medieval bows and their modern sporting version. More than a weapon, the bow was a hunting...

During the Viking Age, Norway underwent a profound transformation under Kings Olaf Tryggvason and Olaf II Haraldsson. Both monarchs promoted the Christianization of the country, replacing the anci...

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A criminologist from Cambridge University has managed to unravel a murder committed in London in 1337: the death of the priest John Forde. What for centuries seemed like a brutal, unexplained cr...

This article analyzes the evolution of some of the bladed weapons in Japan, specifically, its swords, in the most classic and traditional style, and weapons derived from these: from the first cere...

The Middle Ages, between the 5th and 15th centuries, was much more than darkness and superstition. This article explores surprising facts about their customs, hygiene, medicine, the lives of gen...