In the Middle Ages, ending a marriage wasn’t just difficult — sometimes it was deadly. Trial by combat allowed husbands and wives to literally fight each other to settle accusations of adultery, abuse ...

Discover how the Knights Templar rose from humble monks to become one of the most powerful military-religious orders of the ...

In some ways, the subject of the Getty Center’s exhibition “Play and Pastimes in the Middle Ages” might seem a bit peculiar. Play and pastimes in the world of the Black Death? In towns where sewage ...

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 ...