Daily Medieval

It started with King Mithridates IV of Pontus (132 - 63 BCE), who was afraid of being poisoned. He wanted to know all about poisons, so he n...

...and the Poison of Kings are two nicknames given to arsenic. As early as the Bronze Age, the mineral arsenic was added to bronze to make i...

We talked a little about the history of poison here , but now it's time to look at what Medieval Europe had at hand for killing enemies....

The use of poison—a toxic substance deliberately introduced to a living creature for the sake of incapacitating or killing it—is found as ea...

The earliest version of the game now called "real tennis" (or court tennis or royal tennis) was jeu de paulme , literally "pa...