European maps from the Middle Ages are full of strange lands, legendary races and fabulous monsters. Only the Church with the ...

Unicorns, centaurs, griffins, manticores, mermaids and dragons. These are all medieval monsters we learned about in a previous episode. Today we're going to travel a little further afield in the ...

If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals.