The book discusses that troubled legacy drawing on the discourses on Muslims originating in the European Middle Ages, and locates the nineteenth-century texts concerning the Saracens and their lands ...

What kinds of books did parish churches have in the Middle Ages? From where did they get them? BOMPAC examines these poorly known but fundamental questions of medieval book history. Its primary ...

Two medieval methods utilized basic apparatus and the force of gravity to inflict extreme levels of discomfort. The Judas Cradle was a pyramid-shaped spike that a victim would be forced to sit on ...

It is the first significant history of this type ... prose; the book is also attractively laid out in a typeface that is easy on the eye. The Medieval Irish Kings and the English Invasion is ...