When knights and castles served kings and queens, a feudal system employed peasants and vassals. Uneducated people used art to learn stories they could not read for themselves. This collection is about life in the Middle Ages.
During the 14th-century plague epidemic in Europe, Jews are accused of having something to do with spreading the "Black Death." In Strasbourg, residen...
Although his parents had great plans for their son, Arthur dies when he is only 15 years old.
Zodiac Man and His Relationship to Medicine.
Historians believe that Thomas Cromwell fought on the side of the French against the Spanish at the Battle of Garigliano in 1503.
So many people died in plague, in 1349, that there were not enough coffins to care for all the bodies.
Bran Castle, a national monument, may have ties to the real Vlad III - also known as "Dracula" - but then again...
A national treasure of Hungary, this illumination depicts the capture of Gyula. One of the accounts, which survives about this individual, tells us th...
Historians believe this painting, by Michael Sittow, depicts the young Catherine of Aragon.
The town known today as Cividale, in northeastern Italy, had already been settled by Celts and Veneti when Julius Caesar established a municipium (tow...
FromThe Chronicles of Froissart, this image depicts a masked ball attended by nobility (including King Charles VI). Based on an actual event - called...
There was a time when religion and science were linked. During those medieval days, moralisées - such as Codex Vindobonensis 2554 - illustrated how r...
A moralisée, popular in the medieval era, is a pictorial Bible in which Biblical events and their “moralizations” are presented in ...
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