Miniature of the Battle of Hattin
Bibliothèque Nationale FR. 5594 Fol. 197, Sebastian Mamerot, Les Passages fait Outremer, vers 1490
***Virtually the entire Kingdom of Jerusalem passed into Ayyubid hands after their victory against the Crusaders in the Battle of Hattin in 1187
Diagram of the brain
c. 1300
Illumination on parchment, 21,7 x 14,2 cm (whole page)
University Library, Cambridge
MASTER of the Codex of Saint George
Codex of St George (Folio 85r)
1325-30
Tempera and gold on parchment, 373 x 263 mm
Biblioteca Apostolica, Vatican
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Pendant reliquary, gold and enamel.
Thessaloniki, Greece.
13th century A.D.
[British Museum]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxnfvatXZJ1r6upw4o1_500.jpg)
This is so disturbing.
The new science of interrogation is not, in fact, so new at all: “extraordinary rendition” and “enhanced interrogation” and “waterboarding” all spring directly from the practices of the medieval Roman Catholic Church. The distance, in both technique and ideology, between the Inquisition’s interrogation regime and 21st-century America’s is uncomfortably short—and provides a chilling harbinger of what can happen when moral certainty gets yoked to the machinery of torture.
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Icon of Saint George.
Pskov, Russia.
14th century A.D.
[British Museum]](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxnfljlNov1r6upw4o1_500.jpg)
