Medieval Science
This device had over 1000 uses, including telling time, finding a star, measuring the distance between objects, and navigation.
What is the astrolabe/ Al Astrulab?
This popular book series and television show was inspired by the Wars of the Roses.
What is Game of Thrones?
The accuracy of this popular royal historiography was compared by a contemporary to fly-covered excrement.
What is the History of the Kings of Britain/Historia Regum Britannia?
This nut-based medieval beverage, popular for Lent, experienced a renaissance in the 21st century.
What is almond milk?
This Church council made yearly confession mandatory for Latin Christians.
What is the Fourth Lateran Council?
This Persian polymath and father of premodern medicine authored authored the influential five-volume medical encyclopedia, "The Canon of Medicine."
Who is Ibn Sina/ Avicenna?
The most recent installment of this video game series takes place during the Viking invasions of England.
What is Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla? Or just Assassin’s Creed
This medieval Crusading epic played a major part in the creation of modern French cultural identity, for better or for worse.
What is the Song of Roland/Chanson de Roland?
This water fowl was thought to grow on trees, making it acceptable to consume during Lent until it was banned by the Fourth Lateran Council.
What is the barnacle goose?
This war marked the first time one Christian army committed a Crusade on another.
What is the Fourth Crusade?
This Graeco-Roman physician, surgeon, and philosopher's theory of human anatomy reigned supreme until 1543.
Who is Galen/Galenus?
Founded in 1966, this organization is devoted to the Middle Ages "as they ought to have been," choosing to "selectively recreate the culture, choosing elements of the culture that interest and attract us" through live-action roleplaying.
What is the Society for Creative Anachronism?
This saga, which includes the story of Sigurd and Brynhild and the destruction of the Burgundians, is one of the most famous epics in Old Norse/Icelandic literature.
What is Volsunga Saga?
Mentioned in the prologue to the Canterbury Tales, this white combination of milk, sugar, and shredded meat can be found in medieval cookbooks across Italy, Spain, Persia, Denmark, England, the Netherlands, France, and Germany.
What is blancmange?
This Sunni Muslim Kurd who became the first sultan of both Egypt and Syria was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty and an major player in the Third Crusade.
Who is Saladin/Salah ad-Din/Al-Nasir Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub?
This medieval king was obsessed with the occult sciences, and is sometimes known as The Astrologer for his support of and interest in astrology, astronomy, and magic.
Who is Alfonso X/Alfonso the Wise (of Castile)?
This 2001 adventure-comedy film is heavily indebted to the Canterbury Tales, drawing its title, some plot points, and a major character from that work.
What is A Knight's Tale?
Most likely drawn from the Middle Persian work Hezār Afsān, this famous collection of folk tales was compiled during the Islamic Golden Age.
What is 1001 Nights/ Alf Laylah wa-Laylah?
This drink made of fermented mare’s milk, described in depth in John of Plano Carpini’s thirteenth’s century Ystoria Mongalorum, is still considered the national drink of Mongolia.
What is kumis?
This fifteenth-century German guide to witch-hunting was dismissed during its time, but became foundational for early modern witch-burning efforts.
What is the Hammer of Witches/Malleus Maleficarum?
The inventions of this Jewish woman, considered the first true alchemist of the Common Era, include the bain-marie, the alchemical alembic, and one of the earliest examples of something “hermetically sealed”.
Who is Mary the Jewess/Mary the Prophetess?
Published in 2018, this modern poetry collection is written entirely in Middle English.
What is feeld?
This French work by a woman was written as a formal response to Jean de Meun's popular Roman de la Rose.
What is the Book of the City of Ladies?
The earliest written description of how to use salt to make this frozen dessert is known not from culinary texts, but the 13th-century writings of Ibn Abu Usaybia concerning medicine.
What is ice cream?
En route to Mecca in the early fourteenth century, this ruler of Mali spent so much gold in Cairo the currency's value plummeted, ushering a period of high inflation.
Who is Mansa Musa?