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LEECHES and baked owl might not be the first remedies we reach for when feeling poorly, but in the Middle Ages, that was just what the doctor ordered. Medieval medicine was a mix of magic, myth and cu

In AD 897, Pope Formosus was put on trial for the crimes of perjury, coveting the papacy and violating canon law by holding more than one bishopric at a time. In truth, the whole thing was a spectacle

THE DARK TRUTH ABOUT THE BARBERSHOP BOOM

Islam: A New History from Muhammad to the ...

Plastic surgeon Dr Michael Longaker was an undergraduate at Michigan State University in 1979. Now renowned for his work on scarring, back then Longaker’s interests lay more in sports than scientific

From penance to indulgence, everything you need to know about Christian holy journeys in Middle Ages Europe