“Medieval sources repeatedly state that chess is war without bloodshed, and that it represents a just world.” Dr Krisztina Ilko on her new paper 'Chess and Race in the Global Middle Ages'. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/19/medieval-chess-set-equality-respect
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Check mates: analysis of medieval chess sets reveals vision of equality and mutual respect

Far from being a metaphor for racial tension, chess reveals world where people could engage as equals

The Guardian
I've posted this before for #BookologyThursday but I'll post it again: the Dragon in a 1958 edition of 'Beowulf' illustrated by Joseph Mugnaini. #dragon #folklore #folktale #medieval
How-old in hell. Thomas de Saluces, Le Chevalier errant, Paris ca. 1403-1404. BnF, Français 12559, p. 192.
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Early handgun, Austria, 15th century AD
Early handgun, Austria, 15th century AD