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The second nun from Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) The Second Nun, her prologue,...
Men working at a printing press, proofing copy, inking, and setting type. Wood engraving after a woodcut...
Mysia Islands off Troas, Tenedos. Circa 100-70 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 16.27 g 12). / Photo by Exekias,...
One of the greatest treasures of Cambridge University Library is a Buddhist manuscript that was produced in...
Otto Wagner, Postal Savings Bank, Vienna, 1904-06 and 1910-12 “What is impractical can never be beautiful.” –...
Just as courage may only become apparent in dangerous situations, perhaps a system’s resilience cannot be observed...
Noria Waterwheel / Wikimedia Commons The fundamental processes of agriculture, pottery making, and cloth making, plus language,...
The Coronation of Charlemagne, fresco by Raphael at the Apostolic Palace, c.1516 / Wikimedia Commons The problem...
The Coronation of Charlemagne, by Friedrich Kaulbach / Wikimedia Commons Today he is regarded as the founding...
Looking at the botanical and zoological basis of some of these elixirs to find out whether they’d...
Image by Ancient Origins, Wikimedia Commons Ultimately, there is only one warrior culture. Its evolution and transformation...
Krak des Chevaliers, Syria / Photo by Bernard Gagnon, Wikimedia Commons The 13th century saw a number...
Saladin / Wikimedia Commons In July 1096 Kilij Arslan learned that an enormous throng of Franks (Franj)...
First lines of Beowulf from the damaged Nowell Codex Old English arose from the set of varieties...
The Man of Law’s Tale might seem an unlikely specimen for examining the development of race in...
Madrid Codex (replica) in the Museum of the Americas, Madrid / Photo by Simon Burchell, Wikimedia Commons...
Simon Armitage explores Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and reflects on how he approached his own...
Puzzling out the meaning of monsters in Beowulf, comparing the hero with Grendel, Grendel’s mother and the...
Kneeling emperor taking oath before bishop (Scene, Liturgical: Coronation, Oath). (Italy, early 14c.). Princeton University Library, Princeton...
A 1297 copy of the Magna Carta on display in the Members’ Hall of Parliament House, Canberra, Australia / Wikimedia...
The Magna Carta (originally known as the Charter of Liberties) of 1215, written in iron gall ink on parchment...
Palatine Chapel, Creative Commons Charlemagne hailed from Aachen, where the 1743 Aix-la-Chapelle or Aachen Treaty may have created fireworks...
Waterwheel, Darley Mill Centre / Wikimedia Commons Exploring the idea that we must think of technology in much...
The symbol of the Holy Roman Empire / Wikimedia Commons The evolution of the election in the...
Did Shakespeare’s contemporaries believe in witches? Looking at witchcraft trials in the 16th century and considering their...
View from north-east of Reims Cathedral (High Gothic) / Photo by G.Garitan, Wikimedia Commons By Valerie Spanswick /...
This portrays the story of a dispute between Saint Dominic and the Cathars in which the books...
15th Century medieval marketplace / Wikimedia Commons Like many European concepts, the Middle Ages is one which...
Nero didn’t really fiddle while Rome burned – he wasn’t even there. Examining the link between societal crisis...