Empires in the Indian subcontinent shared intertwined histories with principalities to the west such as the Greeks...
Manuscript
When one is “brewminating” over the middle ages, anywhere between the collapse of the Roman empire to...
Introduction Manuscripts and printed books—like today’s museums, archives, and libraries—provide glimpses into how people have perceived the...
A wide-ranging new Getty book examines the role of text and image across cultures over the thousand-year...
Art history students offer a bite-sized introduction to the bestiary of the European Middle Ages. Introduction The...
Medieval books of beasts reflect the attitudes of the people who made them—including antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, and...
A small and ornate book opens up to reveal one of the great masterpieces of Renaissance manuscript...
Behind every manuscript map lies an individual’s hand. Originally published by the Harvard Map Collection, republished with...
These ancient manuscripts cover every aspect of human endeavor. Introduction Timbuktu, Mali, is the legendary city founded...
The early years of printing in Western Europe was a time of astonishing productivity. Originally published by...
Europeans, speaking Spanish, Italian and French, had to communicate with indigenous peoples through Nahuatl, the lingua franca...
Before the age of printing, the texts and layouts of Hebrew works were not standardised. This is...
Persian gained prominence as a literary language and a lingua franca—a common cultural language—about a thousand years...
Its dizzy heights may have passed, but the fad for adult coloring books is far from over....
During the fifteenth century, and notably in Italy, the art of translating was profoundly changed by Humanists...