The Great Mosque of Divriği, photograph by Avniyazici The Paulicians were seeking an area out of the...
Medieval
Various statues carved on the temple walls depicting the Indian Gods in various moods. / Photo by...
Professor David Carpenter and Professor Nicholas Vincent discuss the reign of King John, the grievances of the...
Narrated by Monty Python’s Terry Jones, this animation takes you back in time to medieval England in...
Although the Vikings’ time in East Anglia was relatively brief, they made many contributions to the area’s...
They were portrayed as a sacred mission to reclaim the Holy Land – Jerusalem. However, as most...
Medieval map of Jerusalem by Konrad Grünenberg / Wikimedia Commons The Kingdom of Israel was created after the...
Image from an illuminated manuscript, the Madrid Skylitzes, showing Greek fire in use against the fleet of the rebel Thomas the...
Society has always been infatuated with dating and finding true love, especially during the Middle Ages. By Dr....
Music has played a central role in Greek Orthodox services for centuries. Nicolas Bell describes the manuscript...
Byzantine Constantinople (modern Istanbul), c.1000 CE / Wikimedia Commons Surveying the many written sources for Byzantine history. By...
Medieval Novgorod, by Apollinary Vasnetsov / Wikimedia Commons The Vikings raided, traded and settled as far afield...
Use of a hand-siphon, a portable flame-thrower, from a siege tower equipped with a boarding bridge against...
Add MS 34654 / British Library The development of printing in the 15th century signaled huge changes...
Screenshot from a video game called War of the Vikings showing fighting Vikings, with some of their ships visible, too. /...
From Lucian of Samosata by Nicolas Perrot d’Ablancourt, 1697 Byzantine manuscripts were created by and for educated men both...
Seventh ecumenical council, Icon, 17th century, Novodevichy Convent, Moscow / Photo by shakko, Wikimedia Commons Byzantine scribes...
A silver seal of Robert Fitzwalter showing a mounted knight. 1213-1219 CE. Diameter: 73 mm. (British Museum, London) /...
These ten historical moments help us understand the long and complicated relationships Catalunya has had with Spain...
Detail from a 1642 engraving by Hendrik Hondius, based on Peter Breughel’s 1564 drawing depicting sufferers of...
Santa Maria Novella (Leon Battista Alberti was responsible for the façade, completed in 1470) By Dr. Sally...
Fetteresso Old Inn (now a private house) / Photo by Russ Hamer, Wikimedia Commons Exploring the thousand-year...
By Dr. Robert Davis / 02.15.2018 Professor Emeritus of History The Ohio State University In the early...
Detail of the central embroidery work of a woman’s summer robe, c1875–1900. / Wikimedia Commons In China, as...
View of Toledo, Spain with the Samuel Halevi Abulafia synagogue at the center and the Monastery of...
Middle left (detail), Scenes from the Apocalypse, Paris-Oxford-London Bible moralisée, France, c. 1225-45 (The British Library, Harley MS...
Portrait of Alexios III Komnenos in The Romance of Alexander the Great, 1300s, made in Trebizond, Turkey. Tempera, gold,...
An Elephant (detail) in Miscellany: Physiologus and other texts, about 1510–20, unknown illuminator, made in Crete, Greece. Pen and...
The Great Mosque of Córdoba turned church after the Reconquista / Photo by Berthold Werner, Wikimedia Commons Was it a...
What does a 21st century Viking look like? Anthony Devlin/PA The Vikings have an enduring appeal in the...