Petrus Christus’ artistic concerns are typical of painters of his time in the 15th century. By Christine...
Medieval
This luxurious and exquisite silk fabric was woven in Iran during the 16th century reign of the...
Exploring how Islamic faith and culture influenced West African culture. Introduction During the 7th century, the religion...
Medieval cultures in West Africa were rich and varied. Introduction West African cultures are quite diverse. Many...
Used by diverse writers throughout the Middle Ages, the dream vision as a form was as popular...
An overview of the class structure of society, local government, guilds, pageantry, and punishment in a medieval...
The history of gambling as a favourite pass-time runs back to the medieval ages. People from all...
Examining the contrasts and interplay of rural and urban medieval societies. By Dr. Maryanne KowaleskiJoseph Fitzpatrick S.J....
In the Early Middle Ages, most people in western Europe lived in scattered communities in the countryside...
This was an intellectual conversation starter—filled with meanings waiting to be decoded by an elite, art-literate audience....
In 1209, scholars taking refuge from hostile townsmen in Oxford migrated to Cambridge and settled there. Early...
The University of Bologna saw the first woman to earn a university degree and teach at a...
The manuscript starts with the beginning of the world and ends with the death of Konradin and...
Novgorodian Rus’ and its inhabitants were much influenced by the Viking culture and people. Introduction The Novgorod Republic (several...
There has perhaps been no other philosophic writer whose thinking was as closely connected with the patterns...
It was the purpose of the duel to determine which of the parties was telling the truth...
The “code of chivalry” is a product of the Late Middle Ages, evolving partly from an idealization...
Settlers left Norway and other regions to start fresh and arrange their world as nowhere else in...
Tournaments Ritualized battles were a medieval form of entertainment called tournaments or “tourneys” arising around the eleventh...
Making a grammar book was one of the principal tools of Byzantine scholars to preserve the correct...
English sentence structure or grammar has been extraordinarily impacted by the ancient Greek and Latin models. By...
The main literary source for Heimdall’s role in Norse mythology as a forefather would be the poem Rigsthula. By Irena...
They verbally duel in a so-called mannjafnaðr, a comparison of men, both trying their superiority. By Irina Manea...
A glimpse of the everyday challenges and triumphs medieval women faced during the Middle Ages. By Erin...
The Byzantines began creating portable mosaic icons by setting small tesserae into wax or resin on wood...
These mosaics illustrate the ways Hagia Sophia became entangled in and responded to theological controversies and more....
The persecution and destruction of the Jews of Germany at the time of the Black Death. Introduction...
The era of the samurai lasted for 700 years, until the emperor was restored to power in...
This quadrivium miniature has often been cited as evidence for the prescience of the Carolingian educational reforms....
The Byzantines also created art and architecture with no religious imagery and without explicit religious functions in...