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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 564

Middle Ages

IDF troops use a trebuchet to launch an incendiary device over the border into Lebanon, in a video circulated on June 13, 2024. (Screenshot)
June 13, 2024, 2:00 pm
Troops use trebuchet to launch incendiaries at Lebanon
Middle ages-style catapult used to spark blazes on other side of northern border, where dense vegetation poses challenge to IDF
By Emanuel Fabian
Some bars in León, Spain advertise that they serve "Mata judios" cocktails, though most menus say "limonada." (Shira Li Bartov, via JTA)
March 30, 2024, 10:29 am
‘Kill Jews’ cocktail rocks Spanish town’s Holy Week: ‘An expression, it’s not racist’
In centuries-old tradition, revelers seeking limonadas say they are going out to ‘kill Jews’ in Castilian Holy Week capital, epicenter of pre-Expulsion Spanish Jewry
By Shira Li Bartov
The 12th century Crusader fortress Belvoir, at Israel's Kochav HaYarden National Park in the Jordan Valley (Shmuel Bar-Am)
May 27, 2023, 10:05 am
Between bloodbaths, Jerusalem’s Crusader-era Christians, Muslims coexisted in peace
In ‘Jerusalem Falls,’ Prof. John Hosler analyzes what happened in the Holy City between the battles of the Middle Ages – and finds unexpected religious tolerance
By Rich Tenorio
In this Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020 photo the so-called 'Judensau,' or 'Jew pig,' sculpture is displayed on the facade of the Stadtkirche (Town Church) in Wittenberg, Germany (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
January 17, 2020, 3:20 pm
Anti-Semitic ‘Jew pig’ sculpture at center of German court battle
Jewish activist wants 700-year-old relief on Wittenberg’s church removed; parish agrees it’s an ‘insulting’ piece of history but contends it is part of its inheritance
By Geir Moulson and Kerstin Sopke
Performer Joshua Rudy appears in King Richard's Faire as the master-at-arms in Carver, Massachusetts, September 24, 2016 (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)
October 17, 2016, 10:43 pm
For ‘Renaissance’ Jews, all the world’s a joust
From coast to coast, Jews fill the ranks of elaborate outdoor festival productions, finding connections between Judaism and their penchant for reenacting days of yore
By Matt Lebovic
The Emperor Heraclius Bringing the Cross to Jerusalem, from three volumes of an antiphonary made for the Franciscan community of Bethlehem. (Marie-Armelle Beaulieu/Custodia Terræ Sanctæ)
October 11, 2016, 10:42 pm
Met exhibition on medieval Jerusalem has lots of harmony, not so much Judaism
‘Landmark’ new show featuring 200 stunning artifacts from across the globe is heavy on Christian and Muslim themes, lighter on Jewish ones, and painstakingly avoids contemporary controversies
By Raphael Ahren
Illustrative: Detail from a painting depicting blood libel in St. Paul's Church in Sandomierz, Poland. (public domain, Wikimedia Commons)
April 7, 2016, 5:35 pm
How a 12th century murder became an international Jewish conspiracy
Blood libel, the myth of Jews killing Christian children, has taken on its own life — and that of many Jews — since a Benedictine monk penned the first chronicled fabrication, says author E.M. Rose
By JP O’ Malley
A bronze candelabrum at the Erfurt Cathedral (CC BY-SA Torsten Maue, via Wikimedia Commons)
February 27, 2016, 3:51 am
Iconic church decoration in Germany traced back to local synagogue
Dom Cathedral candelabrum in Erfurt was originally a 13th century Torah stand plundered during 1349 pogrom
By JTA
Illustrative photo of a katana-wielding person, taken June 8, 2010. (Flickr/Bruno Calmi/CC BY 2.0)
October 11, 2015, 3:57 am
Woman stops intruder with medieval skills
Karen Dolley, 43, learned to fight in the Society for Creative Anachronism, a group that recreates Middle Ages skills
By AP
Author Noah Gordon is the most famous writer you've never heard of. (Jamie Beth Gordon)
August 27, 2015, 2:43 am
Noah Gordon is the most successful novelist you’ve never heard of
With 10 millions copies sold, ‘The Physician,’ a novel the 89-year-old wrote 28 years ago, was recently released as a feature film — and may soon hit Broadway
By Steve Maas
Israeli and Russian members of knight clubs, ride their horses on their way to the reenactment of the Battle of Hattin in the Horns of Hattin, northern Israel, July 4, 2015 (AP/Oded Balilty)
July 6, 2015, 8:50 am
History buffs reenact Holy Land crusader battle
Aficionados recreate 1187 clash between Saladin and Christian army from the Kingdom of Jerusalem
By Oded Balilty
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