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...
A Roman wax tablet and stylus / Photo by Peter van der Sluijs, Wikimedia Commons Exploring the...
Simon Armitage explores Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and reflects on how he approached his own...
Puzzling out the meaning of monsters in Beowulf, comparing the hero with Grendel, Grendel’s mother and the...
Various aspects needed to be considered when understanding harassment online / Image by Willowbl00, Wikimedia Commons The...
A marble relief panel from Smyrna showing Roman slaves in chains. 200 CE. (Ashmolean Musuem, Oxford, UK)...
Page from a manuscript of the Bhagavata Purana. Three cowherds bring their cows to the river Yamuna...
Map of Egypt showing the major sites and settlements Looking at the choices the ancient Egyptians made in...
Mythical figurines from Nagada The rise of the city as an important institution can perhaps more confidently be...
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...
Socialists in Union Square, New York City, May 1, 1912 / Library of Congress, Wikimedia Commons Socialism...
Toronto in lovely black and white / Photo by Steve Harris, via Flickr creative commons Just what...
Genking, a male-born Japanese TV personality and ‘genderless’ pioneer. _genking_/Instagram By Dr. Jennifer Robertson / 02.28.2017 Professor...
Aea Celestice is a 32-year-old transgender woman living in Jacksonville, Florida. Celestice said someone needs to hold...
Upper part of a gypsum statue of a Sumerian woman. The hands are folds in worship. The...
The Roses of Heliogabalus (1888), Lawrence Alma-Tadema. (Wikimedia Commons) Ancient Rome featured a myriad of, what could...
Photo: @Noapinion/Twitpic The Midwest has transformed into a stronghold of derivative Southernism: country music and mores, religious fundamentalism,...
Artistic impression of Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg, Russia, when unarmed demonstrators marching to present a petition...
Wikimedia Commons Exploring how women’s lives changed during the Russian Revolution, tracing the history of female revolutionaries in...
“Now is the time for us to set the terms of the conversation, to push back with...
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...
Photo by Anton Bielousov (Own work: Slutwalk, via Wikimedia Commons Historical and structural inequalities that long flourished have...
Palatine Chapel, Creative Commons Charlemagne hailed from Aachen, where the 1743 Aix-la-Chapelle or Aachen Treaty may have created fireworks...
Terracotta amphora, c490 BCE. Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Despite a wealth of ancient writings, archaeological...
Science is one thread of culture – and entertainment, including graphic books, can reflect that. ‘The Dialogues,’ by...