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By Samantha Wallace The Black Death, a pandemic at its height in Europe during the mid-14th century,...
Former Rep. Todd Akin / Creative Commons Of course women get pregnant because of rape, but why...
By Dr. Lea Olsan Former Professor of Medieval Literature University of Louisiana Wellcome MS. 632 may be...
Detail from Add MS 37955 A: a miniature of the Death and Assumption of the Virgin Mary...
Boaistuau, Pierre (1517-1566) By Dr. Katherine Harvey Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History University of London...
Bulgaria, Louvre Museum Mull Organizing Exhibit on Tsars, Christian Art of Medieval Bulgarian Empire 
Bulgaria, Louvre Museum Mull Organizing Exhibit on Tsars, Christian Art of Medieval Bulgarian Empire
Bulgaria’s 2015 exhibition on Ancient Thrace in the Louvre Museum in Paris made headlines in French and...
From Alastair Dalton at The Scotswoman, “The lost medieval village of Cadzow may have been finally located...
Project Daedalus paired fusion propulsion with a rapid stellar flyby, exposing the technological demands and social assumptions...
Kepler’s Somnium imagined the heavens from the Moon, revealing Earth as another celestial body while testing what...
In Plato’s Phaedo, familiar shores occupy a hollow within a greater Earth. The journeys of souls connect...
In June 1938, Chinese troops opened the Yellow River’s dike to obstruct Japanese forces. Villagers endured repeated...
The Qing emptied Xin’an’s coast to weaken Zheng resistance. Displacement and the struggle to rebuild reveal what...
In 1572, the duke of Alba permitted the sack of Mechelen to intimidate other cities. Survivors sought...
Credit agencies awarded top grades to mortgage securities while issuers paid for their assessments. The crisis exposed...
If the Black Death had killed nine Europeans in ten, abundant land might have offered little security....
The East India Company’s crisis drew Parliament into Bengal’s government in 1773. Reform raised a lasting question:...
Painted in hiding from the Nazis, Felix Nussbaum’s Triumph of Death depicts a civilization in ruins. His...
Roman collectors prized Greek masterpieces, creating opportunities for deception. Debate over art forgery turns on how ancient...
Childbirth practices across the ancient Near East shared materials and practical rituals. Egyptian and biblical accounts reveal...
Early Islamic painting combined vivid figural scenes with richly colored ornament. Palace walls and painted objects reveal...
After iconoclasm ended in 843, Byzantine church design developed alongside monumental sacred images. These traditions crossed political...
From medieval illuminations to modern commercial editions, Passover Haggadahs show how Jewish communities reshaped a story of...
Tallinn’s fashion house drew on unofficial access to Western styles while working within the Soviet system. Its...
Images and surviving objects offer clues to Greek middle-class women’s lives under Ottoman rule and how possessions...
Debates over Lorca’s sexuality helped reshape Spanish literary criticism. Queer readings challenged inherited exclusions and explored how...
Steven W. Holloway traces how reports and images of Nineveh crossed the Atlantic, shaping nineteenth-century Americans’ ideas...
In 1465, Juan Pacheco and his allies stripped Henry IV’s effigy of royal authority and proclaimed Alfonso...
Nearly four thousand years ago, a Babylonian king carved 282 laws into a stone pillar, and one...
A 1955 advice letter pitted love against financial security. Italian diaries complicate that choice, revealing how family...