Since ancient times animals have been the source of medicinal substances used in various cultures. Abstract Animals...
Middle Ages
The allure of novel goods was so strong that it triggered 1,000 years of trade and interactions...
The Etymologiae was copied so often by scribes and transmitted so widely that it was second only...
Van Helmont was an heir of Paracelsus’s thought and movement who went to lengths in later years...
The pulverizing defeat at Hattin had left most of the Crusader strongholds without enough soldiers to defend...
The rebellious Arabian tribes declared that their pact with Muhammad was personal and that they felt no...
With the plague decimating the ranks of laborers, surviving workers rebelled against the crown’s higher taxes and...
Plotting John’s route for all 17 years of his reign to produce digital maps of his progress...
Knights were generally paid for their services, but not if in service to the king in a...
Many features of the Settlement remained in place and their effects can still be seen on today’s...
Medieval medical communities and religious institutions were intermingled. Originally published by Digital Commons at Western Oregon University,...
Medieval reliquaries have been subject to widespread destruction during times of religious and political strife. Relics Christian...
Looking at a selection of films that present a global Middle Ages, a chronologically flexible period from...
In medieval England, churches had a moral duty – and even a legal obligation – to protect...
Roman law came to have an immense effect on law as actually practiced in the medieval world....
Doomsday, 1433. In York, after dark. A red curtain. Painted stars. Actors in hoses, wigs, and two-faced...
The affair is sometimes referred to as the Great Schism, but this term is typically reserved for...
The division between the Guelphs and Ghibellines in Italy, fueled by the imperial Great Interregnum, persisted until...
Empires in the Indian subcontinent shared intertwined histories with principalities to the west such as the Greeks...
The transformation of windmill forms had been occuring depending on social needs, the development of science and...
The owners of waterwheels and their mills were the first barons of industry after the so-called ‘Dark...
The plague swept through Christian Europe and Islamdom at roughly the same time – between 1347 and...
The work covers the entire history of ancient Persia from the creation of the world to the...
These poets would affect the literary arts of cultures around the world and continue to inspire readers...
From magic bowls to holy shirts, Muslim cultures used various devices to protect the user from harm...
Looking at how people thought about science and religion in the past can inform the contemporary world’s...
‘Wondirful revelacyons’, the moving of the soul through visionary experience, are the subject of Kempe’s narrative. Introduction...
The first evidence of Persian literature is usually dated to c.522 BCE with the creation of the...
The dying and dead body was an important locus in both religious and secular discourses of power....
It was the first step of what would turn out to be a rocky and far from...