The history of biology, built upon the thoroughness and insight of Aristotle and Galen, passed onto the...
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Beatus was an early medieval monk who set down to illustrate a collection of writings he had...
Heraldry began on the mid-12th century CE battlefield as an easy means to identify medieval royalty and...
An unlikely combination of artists, medieval historians, philosophers and scientists have converged to create an exhibition of...
A new study posits the woman was licking brushes covered with pigments of lapis lazuli, a rare...
The Kingdom of Jerusalem did, in fact, make its own important cultural contributions. On 15 July 1099,...
Modern Taoists in China (and elsewhere) worship many gods at private altars and in public ceremonies which...
The inter-marriage of Muslim families and the mingling with Christianity provides us with an interesting back story...
Their heyday was in the last hundred years of their existence, during the time of the Stuart...
One of the biggest challenges facing medieval historians is interpreting the actions of individuals at a remove...
The relationship between the Byzantine Empire and ancient Armenia was a constant and varied one with an...
Kahina’s life is only known through later Arab historians writing on the Muslim conquest of Africa. Introduction...
A discussion of Avicenna’s 11th-century points of view on rabies and compare them with modern medical knowledge....
Among the first three manuscripts written in Persian, Akhawayni’s Hidayat al-muta’allemin fi al-tibb was the most significant work compiled...
The illustrations in medieval herbals are beautiful and mysterious. But if you know how to read them,...
This 15th-century mystic turned her hand to brewing the bubbly, and she wasn’t very successful. By Karl...
The historic University of Paris first appeared in the second half of the twelfth century. Introduction The...
Monasteries were important centers of learning which educated the young and produced new technologies for agricultural and...
During the fifteenth century, and notably in Italy, the art of translating was profoundly changed by Humanists...
Lawyers spoke their own language, even in the Middle Ages. When John of Salisbury (ca. 1115-1180) decried...
Mesoamerican architecture is the set of architectural traditions produced by pre-Columbian cultures and civilizations of Mesoamerica. Introduction...
A vivid picture of the emergence of the global market and the beginnings of global competition. Introduction...
First digital map of the murders recorded by the city’s Coroner in early 1300s shows Cheapside and...
John Medewall, bearing a very English-sounding name, describes himself as a foreigner, and as such at a...
Monarchs and prime ministers have spent centuries working out which decisions need to be made in public....
There has been a true arms race, where every advance in body armor has required a more...
Siege tactics were a crucial part of medieval warfare. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction Siege tactics were a...
The medieval Law Merchant is often portrayed as a spontaneous system of commercial custom, yet closer examination...
Strategies in translating the first national law-code of Norway, the Landslov from 1274, into English. Abstract This...
The region had been freed from lingering influences of the Byzantine empire and was left to develop...