Examining objects and material culture in ritual performances intended to heal, protect and transform the living and...
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During the Late Middle Ages and the early Renaissance, the concept and scope of the Inquisition significantly...
The Cathars were first noted in the 1140s in Southern France, and the Waldensians around 1170 in...
Medieval robber barons most often imposed high or unauthorized tolls on rivers or roads passing through their...
Throughout the history of the book, scribes and artists have incorporated nature into their creations. Flowers are...
Family arms and honor were put on the line, ladies were wooed, and even national pride was...
Perhaps those fortune-telling games have been circulating for much longer than we think! How can you predict...
The idea of organized satanic witchcraft was invented in Europe by church authorities, who at first were...
Some bestiary descriptions explained a creature’s Christian significance while others focused on physical characteristics. Introduction The bestiary...
The Edict of Milan made the Roman Empire officially neutral with regard to religious worship – and...
Jewish practitioners participated in the exchange of knowledge between Christian and Muslim writers and practitioners. The Book...
Medicine had become highly professionalized by the late Middle Ages and was patriarchal, but women like Trotula...
They had sophisticated medical treatments at their fingertips – from preventative hygiene to prosthetics. Introduction The conventional...
They were founded in 1113 CE with the full name of ‘Knights of the Order of the...
Guilds secured the monopoly and the commerce of the cities, controlling the various activities and selling all...
Since ancient times animals have been the source of medicinal substances used in various cultures. Abstract Animals...
The Etymologiae was copied so often by scribes and transmitted so widely that it was second only...
Knights were generally paid for their services, but not if in service to the king in a...
Examining the Elizabethan Religious Settlement reveals how political necessity, religious compromise, and royal authority reshaped England’s identity...
Medieval medical communities and religious institutions were intermingled. Originally published by Digital Commons at Western Oregon University,...
Medieval reliquaries have been subject to widespread destruction during times of religious and political strife. Relics Christian...
Looking at a selection of films that present a global Middle Ages, a chronologically flexible period from...
In medieval England, churches had a moral duty – and even a legal obligation – to protect...
Roman law came to have an immense effect on law as actually practiced in the medieval world....
Doomsday, 1433. In York, after dark. A red curtain. Painted stars. Actors in hoses, wigs, and two-faced...
The division between the Guelphs and Ghibellines in Italy, fueled by the imperial Great Interregnum, persisted until...
Empires in the Indian subcontinent shared intertwined histories with principalities to the west such as the Greeks...
The owners of waterwheels and their mills were the first barons of industry after the so-called ‘Dark...
The plague swept through Christian Europe and Islamdom at roughly the same time – between 1347 and...
The work covers the entire history of ancient Persia from the creation of the world to the...