“In public, your bottom should emit no secret winds past your thighs. It disgraces you if other people notice any of your smelly filth.” This useful bit of advice for young courtiers in the early 13th ...

“People have the right to live as they wish, we are no longer in the Middle Ages.” This statement, made recently by Luxembourg’s Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Jean Asselborn in relation to ...

In Death and the Miser, a Dutch painting from around 1490, a hideous skeletal figure—a medieval version of the grim reaper—comes knocking at a man’s bedroom door. As death watches, the dying miser ...

Though films and TV series about the Middle Ages do not always attract the same level of love and critical praise as those set in other periods of history, there are still a number of notable films ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.15136123.2 https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.15136123.2 The present volume has been compiled in response to the ever increasing demand for ...

Madeleine S. Killacky does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

As part of a project designed to bring school staff and students closer together through art, Wiley H. Bates Middle School teamed up with a local film company to create a documentary, which will debut ...

Food for monks in the middle ages consisted of what was grown within the monastery and what could be begged from nearby towns ...