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medieval: The Botanical Origins of a Medieval Madness Before LSD, medieval life was plagued with the “bad trip” of ergot poisoning, a fungus that caused men and women to hallucinate the devil and dance themselves to death.; Living in the Margins In medieval marginalia, you might find complaining monks, a nun breastfeeding a monkey, and sexual wordplay. Oh, and doodles, lots of doodles.; Marginalized Spring 2012, “Means of Communication”; Conspicuously Consuming Clergy 1180 / Canterbury; The City of Men The City of Men, illumination of fifteen-century edition of St. Augustine’s City of God. © Art Archive; Workforce Fall 2010, “The City”; Shopping Mall c. 1185 / England; A Matter of Optics by Warren Breckman; Necropolis by Colin Dickey; Chrétien de Troyes Stages a Tournament c. 500 / Wallingford; The World in Time: Peter Wells Illuminates the Dark Ages Peter S. Wells is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Minnesota and author, most recently, of Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered.