Many medieval novels, TV shows and books portray midwives as women with at least some form of knowledge of the mystic arts. She is usually a spinster who lives alone on the fringes of society and is ...

A recent discovery of human bones in Lund, Sweden, has challenged previously held scientific beliefs about the treatment of disabled people in the Middle Ages.

In the 1590s, King James VI of Scotland's fear of witchcraft began stirring up national panics, ... (See how Satan and his punishments were depicted in the Middle Ages.) ...

MedievalMadness. Witchcraft and Warnings: The Darkest Curses of the Middle Ages. Posted: April 28, 2025 | Last updated: April 28, 2025. For thousands of years, people have placed curses on their ...

Antistreptococcic Serum as a Prophylactic in Cases of Operation Involving Subsequent Sepsis — Medicine, Sorcery, Witchcraft, Spiritism in the Middle Ages — The Hygiene of Swimming-Baths ...

Although the idolatry and heresy associated with witchcraft resided only in the will, not in actual deeds, they were nevertheless sinful, Augustine wrote. Punishment was in order — but not burning.

The “Dark Ages” is a misnomer. The period between Antiquity and the Renaissance, known as the Middle Ages, saw amazing advances in art, science, and philosophy. Around 1300, scholars in Europe ...

Witchcraft and women. ... By the end of the middle ages, a view of women as especially susceptible to witchcraft had emerged. The notion that a witch might travel by broomstick ...