In the Middle Ages, as today, visual art offered an avenue to explore, affirm, and sometimes challenge social roles and relationships. Medieval people defined themselves and their neighbors through ...

Far from a “dark age,” the medieval era was a time of explosive academic inquiry, and scholars of both science and religion ...

With more than 1,300 outdoor works ranging from medieval to Modernist and multimedia, the Swiss city is a treat for art ...

Claudia Bolgia - University of Edinburgh 'The Middle Ages in 50 Objects, as its name suggests, places objects front and center in the telling of history. Using select works from the rich collections ...

In Poland the miraculous birth of the Saviour has been widely represented through a range of works inspired by Matthew and Luke's literary depictions in evangelical texts, from Romanesque Art through ...

Archaeologists learned there are five individual settlements, made of small campsites from the late Middle Ages and the ...

To be human is to crave light. We rise and sleep according to the rhythms of the sun, and have long associated light with divinity. Focusing on the arts of western Europe, Lumen explores the ways in ...

Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a period of massive social change, burgeoning nationalism, international conflict, terrible natural disaster, climate change, rebellion ...

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It is the transition to participation in art music which marks a clear differentiation between ... This transition will provide the underlying theme to what follows. Earlier Middle Ages From the time ...

There were very few doctors in the Middle Ages. Training to be a doctor could take years of study and, at the time, there were very few universities. The main European universities in the Middle ...