Not quite appropriate for this thread but there is a programme on (UK) BBC4 tonight (may well go out all over the world) about the 'Mediaeval Mind' - the way that people a millennium ago believed in things we would find incomprehensible. I'm particularly hoping that they deal with unicorns, gryphons and other legendary beasts.
These fascinate me: were people misinterpreting (
e.g. fossil finds or did they make some of these animals up? And why are lions so commonly depicted in NW European art/heraldry/sculpture when there have been no lions in these areas in historical times.
Worth a try, anyway .....
BBC - BBC Four - The Medieval Season - Inside the Medieval Mind