It’s a common scene in many films set in medieval Europe: a wooden cart wheeling its way through a jeering crowd of townsfolk ...

In medieval France, when a pig killed a child, the animal didn't just get slaughtered. It got a trial. These were formal ...

In September 1977, Hamida Djandoubi became the last person executed by guillotine in France and the Western world. The execution took place inside a prison courtyard, away from the public eye.