Frontispiece, most likely by Robert Cruikshank, to The Life and Prophecies of Mother Shipton (1823) / Internet Archive Said...
Medieval
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...
An unhealed gash on the forehead suggests that the man died a violent death, perhaps in battle....
Ladies of a Mandarin’s family at cards, by Thomas Allom (1843) / Wikimedia Commons The emergence of...
Altarpiece at Tallinna Niguliste, Estonia The Reformation, imported from Germany, reached Livonia fairly quickly. The key themes in...
Miracle of the Cross at the Bridge of San Lorenzo, by Gentile Bellini (1500) / Gallerie dell’Accademia, Wikimedia Commons...
Blanche de Castille and King Louis IX / The Morgan Library and Museum, Wikimedia Commons Upon Louis...
Attack of the Crusaders on Constantinople, miniature in a manuscript of 9 La Conquête de Constantinople by Geoffreoy de Villehardouin, Venetian ms....
‘Liber secretorum fidelium crucis’ by Marino Sanudo with maps by Pietro Vesconte. This map of the world was...
A mass grave found in Dorset could belong to a crew of Viking mercenaries who terrorised Europe...
A 1540s depiction of a judicial combat in Augsburg in 1409, between Marshal Wilhelm von Dornsberg and...
Saint-Sulpice church, the romanesque portal, 12th-c., at Marignac, Charente-Maritime, France / Photo by Jebulon, Wikimedia Commons The...
This copy of a medieval manuscript illustration shows a peasant using a very modest version of the...
Medieval townsfolk needed very different sorts of technologies than did rural farmers, and they eagerly adopted tools...