The Mongol Empire expanded through brutal raids and invasions, but also established routes of trade and technology...
Medieval
From The Rurik Dynasty Exhibition / Visit St. Petersbug The Varangians ruled the medieval state of Kievan Rus...
Siamese ambassador Kosa Pan presents King Narai’s letter to Louis XIV’s court at Versailles, 1686 / Wikimedia...
The Garden of Earthly Delights, by Hieronymus Bosch, c.1500 / Prado National Museum, Wikimedia Commons These laws...
A man places a ring on a woman’s finger. c. 1370. (British Library) The marital debt referred to...
Heddal Stave Church (Creative Commons) These historic churches feature elaborate carvings that mix Christian and Viking symbols....
Luoyang longmen grottoes / Photo by Tgasrio, Wikimedia Commons Examining the Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties....
The second nun from Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) The Second Nun, her prologue,...
The Susruta-Samhita or Sahottara-Tantra (A Treatise on Ayurvedic Medicine) / Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Wikimedia...
One of the greatest treasures of Cambridge University Library is a Buddhist manuscript that was produced in...
Boydell’s Collection of Prints illustrating Shakespeare’s works / British Library, Public Domain Rhetoric was a much-valued skill...
Noria Waterwheel / Wikimedia Commons The fundamental processes of agriculture, pottery making, and cloth making, plus language,...
Nordic Sámi (Saami) people in Sapmi (Lapland) in front of two Lavvo Tents / Photo by Granbergs...
New DNA analysis reveals that, before their mysterious disappearance, the Norse colonies of Greenland had a “near...
The Mallikarjuna temple on the left (originally called Trailokesvara temple) was built by queen Trailokyamahadevi (queen of...
The Coronation of Charlemagne, fresco by Raphael at the Apostolic Palace, c.1516 / Wikimedia Commons The problem...
The Coronation of Charlemagne, by Friedrich Kaulbach / Wikimedia Commons Today he is regarded as the founding...
Looking at the botanical and zoological basis of some of these elixirs to find out whether they’d...
Still Life with Fruit, Oysters and a Porcelain Bowl, Abraham Mignon, 1660 – 1679. / Rijksmuseum Medieval...
Krak des Chevaliers, Syria / Photo by Bernard Gagnon, Wikimedia Commons The 13th century saw a number...
Saladin / Wikimedia Commons In July 1096 Kilij Arslan learned that an enormous throng of Franks (Franj)...
First lines of Beowulf from the damaged Nowell Codex Old English arose from the set of varieties...
Initial Q: David Before Saul (detail) from a psalter, after 1205, Master of the Ingeborg Psalter. Tempera...
The Man of Law’s Tale might seem an unlikely specimen for examining the development of race in...
Wikimedia Commons Looking at the establishment of Western monasticism by St. Benedict of Nursia at Montecassino, Italy, in...
Madrid Codex (replica) in the Museum of the Americas, Madrid / Photo by Simon Burchell, Wikimedia Commons...
Kneeling emperor taking oath before bishop (Scene, Liturgical: Coronation, Oath). (Italy, early 14c.). Princeton University Library, Princeton...
Alnwick Castle / Photo by James*C, Creative Commons The notion that modern democracy has medieval roots was...
A 1297 copy of the Magna Carta on display in the Members’ Hall of Parliament House, Canberra, Australia / Wikimedia...
The Magna Carta (originally known as the Charter of Liberties) of 1215, written in iron gall ink on parchment...