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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Now, an exhibition at the Louvre in Paris is celebrating the complex character, following the fool’s dance through art history. Titled “Figures of the Fool: From the Middle Ages to the ...

B. J. Robinson, Ph.D. Laura Getty, Ph.D. Bonnie J. (B.J.) Robinson, Ph.D., is the Director of the University of North Georgia Press and a professor of English at the University of North Georgia. She ...

Archaeologists learned there are five individual settlements, made of small campsites from the late Middle Ages and the Modern ... Researchers also found walls of art, including the depiction ...

Enluminures, as part of New York Jewelry Week. Les Enluminures sets out to provide a fresh reading of the art of the Middle Ages, through intricately embellished manuscripts, finely worked ...