A famous 15th-century altarpiece has been restored in Belgium, and people are freaked out by the artist's original image of a human-faced Jesus sheep. Skip to main content.

It was the 15th century, so it’s hard to know exactly ... What’s important about the bonfire isn’t that it happened, but that people actually handed over things to be burned in the midst ...

In 15th-century Europe, the apocalypse weighed heavily on the minds of the people. Plagues were rampant. The once-great capital of the Roman empire, Constantinople, had fallen to the Turks.