Did Renaissance queens take their chocolate in a coconut?
Animated video about cocos chocolateros and English royalty
Animated video about cocos chocolateros and English royalty
Forty years old this year, the coconut sketch in Monty Python and the Holy Grail may be one of the most iconic opening scenes in film history. The pillar of chivalry, Arthur, King of the Britons, appears riding an imaginary horse like a child on a playground.
A medieval expert compares the rape culture in the controversial TV series with that in history and literature.
Game of Thrones , HBO's massively popular fantasy series, is catching flak again. Despite the addition of supporting cast members over the past few seasons, actor David Oyelowo recently criticized the show's lack of diverse main characters, saying there was "no excuse" for it.
A medieval expert weighs in on what public shaming was like in the Middle Ages.
Talk about "Same Shit, Different Day". In the Season 7 opener of Game of Thrones, poor Sam learns the hard way-in a stomach-turning montage-that manure is serious business in Westeros. This is just as it was in the Middle Ages, and, interestingly, continues to be to this very day.
Let's be clear about this as you digest the pilot episode: The Bastard Executioner isn't about the Middle Ages. First: The early fourteenth century in England and along the Welsh border was a thriving time. Populations were higher than they would be for nearly two hundred years, until Shakespeare's day.
In 1876, an American journalist describing coconut palms casually observed that "all of us have doubtless drunk from the cocoanut dipper made by sawing off the top of the shell, and riveting a wooden handle to the cup." Drinking from coconuts or their shells may be a foreign experience for most Americans today.
Until this week I had not seen the 1993 movie What's Eating Gilbert Grape. The film debuted the year I left my rural home, and was eating seven dollars' worth of groceries a week, while adjusting to major life changes like sidewalks, and college. There was no money left over for movies.