Leprosy carried powerful stigma in medieval Europe, but new skeletal evidence from Danish cemeteries suggests the sick were not always pushed aside in death. In medieval Denmark, burial location ...

One of many standout scenes in the 1975 classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail features King Arthur and his knights facing down the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog, a seemingly innocuous bunny who soon ...

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Burn the witch! Battle the Black Knight! Then outwit the Bridgekeeper at the perilous Bridge of Death in this enchanting interactive medieval experience – the first to earn an enthusiastic thumbscrews ...

PORTSMOUTH — Always look at the bright side of medieval life with “Monty Python’s Spamalot,” an irreverent romp through the Arthurian legend, on stage at Seacoast Repertory Theatre, 125 Bow St. A ...

There’s a special kind of laughter that comes from those who have inherited rubble — a laughter that doesn’t deny history but strips it of its borrowed grandeur. “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” ...

Before the 1975 release of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the British comedy troupe Monty Python was barely known overseas. People in Britain knew the group, made up of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, ...