More than 1500 concise and colourful entries that give details on festivals, rites of passage, plant and herblore and theories about folklore are included in th
A celebration of the visual contributions of the bestiary--one of the most popular types of illuminated books during the Middle Ages--and an exploration of its
In her diary, thirteen-year-old Abigail Thaddeus intersperses revelations from her secret quest to unearth the mysteries of mythological beasts with reports of
"Here there be dragons"--this notation was often made on ancient maps to indicate the edges of the known world and what lay beyond. Heroes who ventured there we