Palmetto Publishing has released Exceptional, a new middle grade novel by educator and musician Eric R. Thomas. The book follows four high school seniors who seize a rare opportunity to perform ...

Rick Steves shares his favorite places to learn about the bleak black arts used to extract confessions and punish criminals.

Medieval torture was used both to extract confessions and to punish the convicted prior to execution. Torturers (who were often clergy) had a huge toolkit with which to practise their bleak black art.

This exhibition explores the Book of the Marvels of the World, an illuminated manuscript made in the 1460s that weaves together tales of places both near and far. Told from the perspective of a ...

Medieval scribes and artists were some of the world’s first graphic designers. They planned individual pages and entire books in creative ways, using handwritten text and painted decoration. From ...