Mandeville’s Travels was, for more than two centuries after its appearance in c.1356, of enormous influence and...
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Examining a microcosm of the medieval world in the castle. By Mark Cartwright / 06.01.2018Historian Introduction An...
The Gimli viking statue / Photo by Krazytea, Wikimedia Commons Medieval Iceland illustrates an actual and well-documented...
14th-century theological compendium / University of California Berkeley Special Collections Examining depictions of penance and confession in...
Tracing the sad medieval history of the siren and trying to understand where it all went wrong....
A knight fighting a dragon, 15th-century woodcut / Rauner Special Collections Library, Wikimedia Commons The emergence of...
Jan Van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait, 1434, tempera and oil on oak panel, 82.2 x 60 cm...
Artwork page for ‘The Cholmondeley Ladies’, Unknown artist, Britain, c.1600-10 / Tate Britain In the Middle Ages,...
South transept of Tournai Cathedral, Belgium, 12th century / Wikimedia Commons The Romanesque style appeared to be...
Cross of the Scriptures, Cathedral, Temple Doolin and South Cross / Photo by Ingo Mehling, Wikimedia Commons...
Initial Q: David Before Saul (detail) from a psalter, after 1205, Master of the Ingeborg Psalter. Tempera...
Egglestone Abbey, Barnard Castle in County Durham In medieval England, people in debt or who had broken...
Today, we tend to think that birth alone confers citizenship. Not so in medieval England. By Dr....
The economic system of the Middle Ages was founded on feudalism, supporting the overlords with the work...
1493 woodcut of Basle, from the Nuremberg Chronicle / Wikimedia Commons Population growth had exceeded the limits...
Scene from the Song Dynasty Illustrations of the Classic of Filial Piety, depicting a son kneeling before...
Economic, legal, and social institutions emerged that were essential to the development of an extensive and complex...
The Garden of Earthly Delights, by Hieronymus Bosch, c.1500 / Prado National Museum, Wikimedia Commons These laws...
A man places a ring on a woman’s finger. c. 1370. (British Library) The marital debt referred to...
Heddal Stave Church (Creative Commons) These historic churches feature elaborate carvings that mix Christian and Viking symbols....
Luoyang longmen grottoes / Photo by Tgasrio, Wikimedia Commons Examining the Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties....
The Susruta-Samhita or Sahottara-Tantra (A Treatise on Ayurvedic Medicine) / Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Wikimedia...
Nordic Sámi (Saami) people in Sapmi (Lapland) in front of two Lavvo Tents / Photo by Granbergs...
New DNA analysis reveals that, before their mysterious disappearance, the Norse colonies of Greenland had a “near...
Examining the development of the criminal justice system in medieval India. By Dr. Rahul TripathiAssociate Professor of...
Still Life with Fruit, Oysters and a Porcelain Bowl, Abraham Mignon, 1660 – 1679. / Rijksmuseum Medieval...
Initial Q: David Before Saul (detail) from a psalter, after 1205, Master of the Ingeborg Psalter. Tempera...
Wikimedia Commons Looking at the establishment of Western monasticism by St. Benedict of Nursia at Montecassino, Italy, in...
Alnwick Castle / Photo by James*C, Creative Commons The notion that modern democracy has medieval roots was...
Arms and armors of a typical noble Frankish warrior, 5th-6th century / Photo by Altaipanther, Germanisches Nationalmuseum,...