Far more than just a method of execution, hanging and gibbeting in the medieval world were designed to inflict lasting pain and public shame. While hanging could be swift, gibbeting often left the ...

Leonardo and Michelangelo, duking it out for Renaissance commissions, became bitter rivals, but why did their beef begin?

Over thousands of years human beings have spent an inordinate amount of time working out how to kill one another. So, it wasn’t long before they had the idea of using drowning as a form of lethal ...

Art has often been treated as nothing more than an asset by the wealthy, but it need not be one that criminals can use to ...

A new exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art features works by artists who explore environmental issues, grief and ...

It’s not a large exhibition, but it’s a versatile one, covering medieval bookmaking technology and science, the social lives ...