As the human race emerged from the Middle Ages into the start of modernity, we learned more about the world around us. We also took some wild flights of fancy, however. The humanoid creatures we ...

Medieval Europe was filled with terrifying legends and monstrous creatures that haunted the imaginations of its people. In ...

European maps from the Middle Ages are full of strange lands, legendary races and fabulous monsters. Only the Church with the help of God was able to provide protection against these horrors.

In the Middle Ages, these fearsome monsters were adopted from antiquity and adapted to fit the mindset of the time. In A.D. 313, the Edict of Milan established legal tolerance for Christianity ...

Augustine’s ideas had an impact on how animals and monsters would later be understood in the Middle Ages. Asa Mittman ... of intersection between the human and animal worlds.

In the European Middle Ages, monster stories served as religious teaching ... George’s dragon embodies the church’s very human enemies. In each case, these dragons are part of the landscape ...

“Medieval Monsters: Terrors, Aliens, Wonders” takes the visitor on a jaunt through Europe’s Middle Ages via its beasties ... blemmyes—humanoids with no heads, their faces instead on ...

Below, the three most important yetilike creatures you've (likely) never encountered. The Western world’s original yeti, the woodwose rose to its greatest prominence during the Middle Ages ...

In the Middle Ages, these fantastic creatures were thought to be fallen angels and only turned up as water-spouts, says Mark Thomas, owner of Architectural Revolution at 856 W. Belmont Ave.

To begin to understand, you need to go straight to the unicorn chapter of this first English translation of Heroes and Marvels of the Middle Ages by the French medievalist Jacques le Goff (1924-2014).