Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Knidos, Roman marble copy after 4th century Greek original (Palazzo Altemps, Rome) By Dr. Nancy Ross /...
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Pilot whales stranded on Farewell Spit, 2015. By Dr. Ellen F. Arnold / 03.09.2016 Associate Professor of...
Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine By Patrick Outhwaite / 04.21.2017 PhD Candidate in English McGill University...
By Dr. Richard Aspin / 11.03.2016 Head of Research Wellcome Library Almanacs have a long association...
Priest receiving communion before altar (detail), Master of the Church Fathers’ Border, The Mass of Saint Gregory, late...
Altneushul, Prague (photo: Øyvind Holmstad, CC BY-SA 3.0) The Old New Synagogue or Altneuschul, situated in Josefov, Prague, is Europe’s oldest active synagogue.[1] It...
By Dr. Patricia Skinner / 12.22.2016Professor of Early and Middle Medieval EuropeSwansea University Introduction Here, the legal...
A heavy oak chest in the Parker Library (Corpus Christi College) was used to store objects left as collateral...
Initial Q: David Before Saul (detail) from a psalter, after 1205, Master of the Ingeborg Psalter. Tempera colors...
Pious drinking. Walter Dendy Sadler via Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Michael Foley / 11.17.2017 Associate Professor of Patristics...
Detail of figures from the Dance Macabre, Meslay-le-Grenet, from late 15th-century France. Ashby Kinch, CC BY By Dr. Ashby...
Telling-tales; a comet above Augsburg in 1618. / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Laura Bland / 10.30.2017 Visiting...
Henricus de Alemannia with students in a medieval university, by Laurentius de Voltolina, second half 14th century...
Human ear complaining to Nature from the Spiegel der Weisheit manuscript (Salzburg, 1430). / British Library By...
The Basilica of San Clemente, Rome, church rebuilt 1099-1119 (mosaic 1130s) with eighteenth-century renovations (photo: Michael Foley,...
Brothers Cyril and Methodius bring Christianity to the Slavic peoples / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Stephen M....
King William I or William the Bastard / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Sara McDougall / 06.12.2017 Associate...
Dante and the Three Kingdoms by Domenico-di-Michelino / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. John Marenbon / 02.23.2016 Fellow,...
I come with a (s)word. Ramon Llull in a manuscript of his Ars Magna, ca. 1320. /...
People in Medieval England, illustrated here by a section of the Bayeux Tapestry / The Bayeux Tapestry...
Cupid shoots an arrow in the ‘Roman de la Rose’. 14th century, MS NLW 5016 // Wikimedia...
From the collection / Cambridge University Library Treasures from the world’s largest and most important collection of...
By Lisa M. Lane / 05.15.2016 Professor of History MiraCosta College Introduction The High Middle Ages was...
A medieval kitchen / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Alixe Bovey Head of Research The Courtald Institute of...
By exploring illuminations depicting rural life, Dr. Alixe Bovey examines the role of the peasant in medieval...
Detail from frontispiece of The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals (1906) by E.P.Evans Murderous pigs...