FACTS are stranger than HISTORICAL FICTION

NO DISCRIMINATION HERE -- SPANISH INQUISITION PERSECUTES BOTH JEWS AND MUSLIMS. In the 1390s Friar Vincent Ferrer wanted to conve...

HOW TO CATCH A JEW. Instructions posted on your local church door. Where? When? Berlin, 1938? No, Valencia, 1512, by the inquisitor An...

  EARLY MODERN AUTOBIOGRAPHY – creative non-fiction or material for a reality show? This story comes from Johannes Butzbach’s...

ADULTERER SENTENCED TO DEATH BY DROWNING. A Renaissance tabloid headline? From Kok's blog An exemplary tale to warn you agai...

THREE EASY STEPS TOWARD MAKING BABIES – THE RENAISSANCE WAY. More good advice from Leon Battista Alberti: STEP ONE: Choose a wif...