Natalie Lawrence uncovers fascinating other-worldly natural history, creatures that embody our anxieties and our irrational ...

"Histoires Prodigieuses; the Monster of Cracow," 1559, London, Wellcome Collection. Public domain. Monsters, Prodigies, and Demons: Medieval and Early Modern Constructions of Alterity is dedicated to ...

Inherited from Classical culture, medieval sirens were depicted as part-human from the waist up, and part-bird or part-fish from the waist down. Some early examples combine avian and piscine ...

These are all medieval monsters we learned about in a previous episode. Today we're going to travel a little further afield in the middle ages, to learn about beasts such as the ones described as ...