Decorated initials’ embellishment, patterns, designs, and themes give rise to myriad categories, and these groupings can help ...

“There are about a half-dozen illuminated initial letters in it ... had the students read from other types of medieval works. The reading list included Dante’s “Inferno,” which was ...

Drawing on the unexpected joy of writing a research paper, Helen Katz encourages students to engage with history at the Green ...

Part pandemic horror story, part road movie, and part medieval adventure, this blood-and-pus-soaked epic makes gorgeous use of its limited color palette and its dirty, muddy authenticity.

Getty Even though she has no doubts about her husband, one woman said she can't help but think it's a little weird that her mother decided to get his first initial inked on her wrist. In a recent ...

This course explores the technology and function of books in historical perspective, asking how illuminated manuscripts were designed to meet (and shape) cultural and intellectual demands in the ...

“Medieval Money ... Jumping forward to ninth-century Egypt, we see pages from illuminated Coptic manuscripts: One contains a large cross in red, green and yellow; another shows ornamental initials and ...

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What was life like in medieval society? Most medieval people lived in villages, as there were few large towns in the Middle Ages. The majority of people were peasants. The Church's role in ...

For some time, many of these looked to the medieval period as a moment of chivalry and knightly quest. More recently, however, popular culture set in the Middle Ages has leaned into the gritty and ...

A tomb of a medieval Catholic saint was recently opened last month for research – and the condition of her body stunned those who found her. In an Aug. 28 press release translated from Spanish ...

Her research focuses on illuminated manuscripts, metalwork, and sculpture of Britain, Ireland, and the Continent in the early medieval period and on the ... she received an honorary Doctor of Letters ...