Blanche of Castile and Louis IX of France / Creative Commons Ultimately the Crusaders were forced to...
Medieval
A 14th century CE illustration of Louis IX of France (r. 1226-1270 CE) departing Aigues Mortes for Egypt on...
Examining the available evidence for the use of horses and armor for them in medieval Islam warfare, with...
In 14th-century London, Church leaders discovered how to make a tidy income from sex workers. By Dr....
Fresco in the Pellegrinaioof the hospital of Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Domenico, di Bartolo / Wellcome Collection,...
This medieval manuscript lies at the center of a group of books of hours produced by artists of...
Ancient remains at Thula / Creative Commons Following conquest by the Umayyid caliphate, Islam rose fairly quickly. Curated/Reviewed...
Taming of the Shrew, 1809, by Washington Allston / Philadelphia Museum of Art, Public Domain In Shakespeare’s...
Dues Vault, Hospitaller fortress in Acre, Israel / Creative Commons Taking a tour through five well-known 13th-century...
The Siege of Calais (1346) / Wikimedia Commons The 13th century was not only a period of...
New facial reconstruction of a man buried in a medieval hospital graveyard discovered underneath a Cambridge college...
An Arab city of the early medieval period. Urban centers in the Middle East were of a...
Frontispiece, most likely by Robert Cruikshank, to The Life and Prophecies of Mother Shipton (1823) / Internet Archive Said...
The Pope, as the head of the Catholic Church, led the single most powerful institution of the...
The inside of a jail of the Spanish Inquisition, with a priest supervising his scribe while men...
Palazzo di Medici-Riccardi / Creative Commons The state was merely a product of these guilds with institutions...
Brodie castle, north Scotland. Albert de Bruijn, CC BY-SA How medieval spires and snarling gargoyles went out of fashion and then made a spectacular...
Portrait by Jacopo Pontormo; the laurel branch (il Broncone) was a symbol used also by his heirs /...
During the medieval period the Muslim community was rather tolerating and accepting in this regard. By Muzaffar...
Sephardic Diaspora map / Skillman Library, Lafayette College Were (and are) Jewish migrations predominantly the result of...
A 14th century CE manuscript illustration depicting Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (r. 1220-1250 CE), and the Sultan of Egypt and Syria al-Kamil...
A painting depicting the surrender of the Latin ruler Guy de Lusignan to Saladin, the Sultan of Egypt and Syria (r. 1174-1193...
Princeton University Library, Creative Commons Two distinctive art forms came together for a brief period in Germany...
Vincent of Beauvais (1190 – 1264?) was a French scholar, encyclopedist and Dominican Friar. / Public Domain...
A miniature from en:Grandes Chroniques de France depicting the expulsion of Jews from France in 1182. / Diaspora Museum, Tel...
Bronze statue of Geoffrey Chaucer The world about which Chaucer wrote was a very different world from...
Coronation of the Virgin Altarpiece by Guariento di Arpo, 1344, tempera and gold leaf on panel, Norton...
The Great Silk Road was a caravan road connecting East Asia to the Mediterranean from Ancient times...
A portrait of Charlemagne wearing the crown of the Holy Roman Empire (fifteenth century painting by Albrecht Dürer)...
The pope may have been successful in staving off a foreign takeover of his lands, but he...