Medieval Robots

Samuel Pepys (pronounced “peeps”), committed diarist and official in the British Royal Navy, was born in London in 1633 and died in London i...

I've begun watching The Repair Shop , a British reality tv show (first two seasons are available on Netflix in the US). The premise: Peo...

This past August, I got a new backpack and a bus pass, and headed back into the classroom, as a student, for the first time in well over a d...

Yale University Library, Beinecke MS 408, fol. 83v.  The mysterious Beinecke MS 408, also known as the Voynich MS (after the rare boo...

I've explored the reason why it matters that we so often equate the medieval past with squalor and filth. So I was delighted when a fri...

  "Get Out," Jordan Peele's racial horror film, uses medievalism as brilliantly as it uses milk and Fruit Loops to inform th...

"Time is, time was, time is past," quoth the Brazen Head. I recently had occasion to discuss medieval legends of oracular head...