In the original festival, men would sacrifice a goat and a dog, then run around naked or nearly naked, hitting women with the animals' hides.
The world's oldest Valentine is on display in the "Medieval Women: In Their Own Words" exhibition at the British Library in ...
She's reviving the Black Arts Movement’s tradition of pairing poetry with live music—and drawing Gen Z off their phones and ...
Valentine's Day, traditionally linked with love and romance, has roots that trace back to the Middle Ages. Originally a feast ...
Stephen King’s Danse Macabre (1981) argues that horror serves a cathartic function, allowing creators and audiences to confront fears safely, providing an emotional “workout” that helps individuals ...
Many Ramayanas, Many Lessons' by Anand Neelakantan is part of the author's effort to compile folk, oral, and textual ...
Selva Almada’s work is central to the battle to protect hard-won victories that President Javier Milei has vowed to overturn.
The book on which she collaborated with two fellow feminists drew global attention to the repression of women under their ...
The sounds of Ancient Armenia reimagined for the 21st century.” — Tigran Mansurian “A moment of grace and meditation.” — ...
The view of Valentine’s Day as a day for lovers can be traced back to two medieval poets who stood up for romance and the ...
Archaeologists recently stumbled across a medieval pagan cult site in the Netherlands where they found a bounty of treasure.
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