From the late Middle Ages to The Marriage of Figaro to Mel Gibson's Braveheart, the ultimate symbol of feudal barbarism has been thedroit de cuissage, or right of a feudal lord to sleep with the bride
Before the end of the thirteenth century, theologians had little interest in demons, but with Thomas Aquinas and his formidable “Treatise on Evil” in 1272, everything changed. In Satan th
Before the end of the thirteenth century, theologians had little interest in demons, but with Thomas Aquinas and his formidable “Treatise on Evil” in 1272, everything changed. In Satan the Heretic, Al
The myth of pope Joan (a supposed ninth-century pope who was found to be a woman at her death in childbirth during a public procession) is followed from its inception in the 13th century down to the 1
The medievalists Spiegel and Nichols have provided English readers with a translation of a thought-provoking analysis of the historian Ernst Kantorowicz, author of the influential work The king's two
