The Abbey of Saint-Étienne, is a former Benedictine monastery in the French city of Caen, Normandy, dedicated...
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The Great Mosque of Divriği, photograph by Avniyazici By Hugh Jeffrey / 01.16.2017 PhD Candidate in Archaeology...
Purse lid from the Sutton Hoo ship burial, early 7th century, gold, garnet and millefiori / British...
Pyramids of Giza, Egypt / Begun c.2560 BCE, Fourth Dynasty By Dr. Mark Damen / 07.25.2015 Professor...
Great Mosque of Samarra, Established 848 CE, Iraq / Wikimedia Commons Lecture by Dr. Paul H. Freedman...
Benedictine Abbey of Cluny, founded 910 CE by William I (Duke of Aquitaine), Burgundy / Wikimedia Commons...
By Christine Sciacca / 11.23.2015 Curator of Manuscripts J. Paul Getty Museum When most people think of...
Fancy something a bit different this year? Caroline Yeldham, courtesy of the Leeds International Medieval Congress By...
The Three Living and the Three Dead and Decorated Text Page from Crohin-LaFontaine Hours By Dan Giglio...
The medieval period in Europe was a time of ignorance, superstition and violence, but it was also...
A Wound Man from a late 15th-century manuscript, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Cgm 597 / Munich Digitization Center This...
By Bryan C. KeeneAssistant Curator, Department of ManuscriptsGetty Museum In medieval Europe there was a close link...
Detail of Mercury, “The Hypocritical Planet,” watercolor in Zakariya ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini, Book of Wonders and Oddities,...
Philosophy Presenting the Seven Liberal Arts to Boethius (detail), miniature in a French manuscript of The Consolation...
La Sorbonne, Paris / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Giles Gasper / 03.10.2016 Senior Lecturer in Medieval History...
10.14.2016 Appreciated today for its aesthetic qualities, color during the Middle Ages was also understood for its...
Bible, about 1280–90, Bologna, Italy. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig I 11, fol. 248v Medieval...
By Dr.Sonja Drimmer and Dr. Damian Fleming / 10.09.2016 Drimmer – Assistant Professor of Medieval Art,...
thenewyorkcrank.blogspot.com By Albrecht Classen Affiliate disclosure: Amazon links on this site are paid links. As an Amazon...
Men with dogs’ heads, creatures with giant feet, griffins, sirens and hellish demons can all be found...
A medieval kitchen / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Alixe Bovey Head of Research The Courtald Institute of...
Gillion’s Ship Attacked by the Sultan’s Army (detail) from the Romance of Gillion de Trazegnies, 1464, Lieven...
View overlooking the Piazza del Duomo. All photos in this post: Alexandra Kaczenski Saint Agatha’s annual religious...
Competitive sports were alive and well in the Middle Ages. Which would be Olympic sports? This curator...
Richard Caton Woodville’s The Battle of Towton. By Dr. James Clark Professor of Medieval History University of...
Detail from frontispiece of The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals (1906) by E.P.Evans Murderous pigs...
Over 50 different samples of swords and dozens of types of maces from various time periods originating...
stopherjones/Flickr By Dr. Fiona Edmonds Senior Lecturer in Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic University of Cambridge The medieval...
Medieval Armor / Metropolitan Museum of Art By Dr. Graham N. Askew, Dr. Federico Formenti,...
Does your bad humour ail thee? Wellcome Library Collection By Dr. Winston Black Assistant Professor of Medieval...