It was a focus for tourists and artists and a watershed of inspiration throughout the Western world....
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Texts and images produced throughout the medieval world reveal that harp music could elicit powerful responses. Infernal...
The culture of antiquity played an important role in the literary and artistic endeavors of the Middle...
The powers of saints were believed to extend to their images. By Dr. Wendy A. SteinResearch AssociateDepartment...
The Golden Legend often blends traditional stories about the saints with historical facts, as seen in the...
The text is a detailed account of a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and Mount Sinai, originally written by...
These images were sometimes augmented with texts that were used for protective or healing purposes. Introduction Christianity...
Historical inspirations came before, but the word Halloween or Hallowe’en dates to about 1745. Introduction Halloween or...
Ancient Celts divided the year into two halve – the lighter half and the darker half, and...
Politicians create political creeds that live on long after they leave office, so we must brace ourselves...
The soul was viewed as a single entity known as the Khu which was the immortal aspect...
After death, one was guided through the Hall of Two Truths where the heart was weighed against...
Gun legislation and debates about the second amendment are nothing new. Introduction Gun politics is an area...
We all had a childhood dream. It is, unfortunately, by virtue of it being a childhood dream,...
A new book explores the photographer’s dedication to feminism and civil rights in the early 20th century....
Exploring one of the earliest bids by a woman to secure celebrity through curation of “personal brand”....
In Ancient Rome, fathers were endowed with nearly limitless power (patria potestas) over their family. Introduction The...
To a Roman male his family was his property and he exercised absolute control. It determined both...
Loyalist individuals were inspired to action or inaction by a variety of motives, only some of which...
When their cause was defeated, about 15 percent of the Loyalists (65,000–70,000 people) fled to other parts...
Was this an effort by Prince Charles (the future King Charles II) a last-ditch effort in exchange...
The Purge cleared the way for the execution of Charles in January 1649 and the establishment of...
Loyalists comprised 15-20% of the colonial population during the Revolutionary War. The Patriots “Patriots,” as they came...
The prerequisites for the emergence of a public sphere were increasing levels of literacy which was spurred...
The usurpation mania of the third century had profound effects in the empire’s bureaucratic and military organization....
Nero’s death marked a definitive end to the Julio-Claudian Dynasty, and a series of civil wars began...
Thanks to the trend of publishing daily horoscopes in newspapers and magazines, every person in America knows...
Hitler used the referendum to legitimize his move to take the title Führer und Reichskanzler (Führer and...
The fin-de-siècle generation condemned the rationalistic individualism of liberal society and the dissolution of social links in...
Mitch McConnell has been packing the federal courts for six years now, and, as a result, the...