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 ...

Medieval royalty didn’t live quiet lives — their entertainment was loud, extravagant, and often dangerous. Kings hunted massive boars with spears, hosted brutal jousts, and held lavish feasts that ...

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 ...