Leprosy carried powerful stigma in medieval Europe, but new skeletal evidence from Danish cemeteries suggests the sick were not always pushed aside in death. In medieval Denmark, burial location ...

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One of many standout scenes in the 1975 classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail features King Arthur and his knights facing down the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog, a seemingly innocuous bunny who soon ...

There’s a special kind of laughter that comes from those who have inherited rubble — a laughter that doesn’t deny history but strips it of its borrowed grandeur. “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” ...

After a week of shooting “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” in 1974 the results were clear. Graham Chapman, who starred as King Arthur because nobody else wanted to play the straight man, “said what a ...