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Priest offering the heart taken from a living human victim to the Aztec sun god and god of war, Huitzilopochtli. Print of facsimile from Aztec Codex, published 1904. Human Sacrifice (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)
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Q&A: Why and how did the Aztecs practise human sacrifice?

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A watermill, with fish nets and eel traps visible beneath the waters of the mill leat Luttrell Psalter. England, c 1325-1335. (Photo by Alamy)
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Medieval eels and Englishness . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A Fool Rebuked by God, 14th-century psalter. (Photo by Heritage Arts/Heritage Images via Getty Images)
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Medieval marginalia: exploring ‘doodles’ from the Middle Ages

A spider on its web, woodcut, 1547. (Image courtesy of Wellcome Collection)
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A sign of the devil or a miracle cure? How people felt about spiders in the Middle Ages

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Harold Godwinson, Earl of Wessex (later Harold II of England), on horseback, holding a hawk. From the Bayeux Tapestry (Photo by Getty Images)
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Empress Matilda, daughter of Henry I: a queen in a king’s world