Holbein’s woodcuts were a highly original take on a medieval theme. This article, Hans Holbein’s Dance of...
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Scholastic masters found themselves both constrained and enabled by institutions. Introduction This volume addresses the ways in...
Melancholy was regarded as one of the four temperaments matching the four humours. Introduction Melancholia or melancholy (from Greek: melaina chole,[1] meaning black bile)[2] is...
It recounts the story of the Book of Esther to emphasize its Jewish owners’ identities as both...
The emphasis was on the spiritual or supernatural means of self-protection. Introduction This book is not primarily...
The emphasis on founding explanations for different disasters was always laid on two major issues. Introduction When...
Through the priests, God’s power to watch and judge had a human embodiment. Humanity, according to the...
The Banu Musa brothers described a number of early automatic controls. Introduction The Book of Ingenious Devices (literally: “The...
Roger Bacon was not afraid to challenge current beliefs about philosophy, science, and religion. Introduction Roger Bacon...
Individual penance was simply not enough, some collective and common forms were called on. Introduction Despite all...
The new grande industrie affected fashion, which in turn contributed to the growth of commerce. Introduction Technology...
Alchemy really took off in Greco-Roman Egypt from the 1st to 7th century CE. Introduction Alchemy is...
The early Merovingian kings and queens were not particularly interested in cultivating cultural activity. Sometime between 664...
The remarkable wealth of the London vintners in the fourteenth century created a distinctive locus. Introduction On...
Coins and seals held differing functions in medieval society. Introduction Over the past two decades, medieval women...
The three types of manorial court were distinguished by the importance of those who made use of...
The multiple ways in which animals and humans intersect in medieval medical history. Introduction This article will...
Our understanding of horizontal learning within medieval communities largely depends upon semantics. Abstract This contribution sketches a...
The social lives of medieval Londoners reveal how far they were drawn into the centralizing forces of...
How frequently these disasters occurred and what conditions influenced their severity. Disastrous Times Before we embark on...
Both weather and natural catastrophes have always been highly impactful on human history and culture. Introduction Originally...
How physicians could divine sexual history, disease, and impending death by studying the body’s liquid excretions. This...
Feudalism in Europe emerged based on Roman clientship and the Germanic social hierarchy of lords and retainers....
“Human knowing is powerless in the study of another world.” By Sh Fayzulloeva MAssistant ProfessorTajik State University...
Churches depended to a large extent on the distribution of funds raised from ecclesiastical property. Like the...
The Ben Ezra Synagogue was founded in 1006, and has been revered from that time to the...
Cultural ideas, art traditions, and aesthetic tastes informed objects made and traded on the ancient Silk Road....
Slave trading in Europe from Late Antiquity to the twelfth century. Introduction The image of the early...
There are a number of 9th-century cases of projected or actual withdrawal from the world of persons...
Old age began at 60 in the Middle Ages and a surprising number of people reached that...