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Dante given stay of execution

Submitted by Milica on Sun, 2008/07/13 - 11:47. 1301 CE to 1400 CE | Fine Arts | Italian
Officials in Florence, Italy have granted Dante Alighieri, Italy's most famous poet, a stay of execution. The poet was exiled in 1302 with a mandate that he "would be executed if he stepped foot in the city again."
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Esmeralda's photos from La Prova Dura

Submitted by Milica on Sun, 2008/07/13 - 15:48. Armoured Combat | Photo Album | West
Esmeralda of the Lakes has posted an album of photos from the recent La Prova Dura event in the Kingdom of the West.
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St Margaret's church in Leicester, England ransacked by vandals

Submitted by Milica on Sun, 2008/07/13 - 19:35. 1201 CE to 1300 CE | BBC News | Christianity | English | Places of Worship
Police in Leicester, England report that vandals broke into and desecrated a 13th century church in the city's center, overturning lecterns, breaking windows and defecating through a floor panel into the church's medieval foundation.
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Scribing hazardous to health of medieval monks

Submitted by Milica on Sun, 2008/07/13 - 22:53. 1401 CE to 1500 CE | Medicine | Scandanavian | Scribal Arts
New research on the bones of monks interred in six Danish cemeteries shows that the brothers may have been exposed to toxic mercury while copying Biblical texts. Mercury was used in the preparation of red ink.
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