What was torture really like in the Middle Ages? Larissa ‘Kat' Tracy joins Danièle to talk about iron maidens, dungeons, executions and more on The Medieval Podcast. [...]

I will explore correlations in the use of sacred geometry, number symbolism, light metaphysics, and optics in Gothic cathedral architecture and sacred literature of the same period [...]

I will explore correlations in the use of sacred geometry, number symbolism, light metaphysics, and optics in Gothic cathedral architecture and sacred literature of the same period [...]

I estimate that over this 150-year period, on average, 21.5 percent of the regional economy was devoted to the construction of these Gothic churches, 1.5 percent of which is directly related to the implicit cost of labor. [...]