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.
The Catholic Church bans Nicolaus Copernicus's book on the 5th of March, 1616 (decades after his death). Why ban a book which Catholic Universities ha...
After King Edward I (of England) removed the Stone of Scone (from Scotland), in 1296, he ordered the creation of a special throne (called the Coronati...
This image depicts a page from the "Deeds of Alexander the Great" (Alexandri Magni Historia) also known as Manuscript (Cod. Lat. 161). This impo...
An unknown miniaturist, working in Venice during the 1340s, created this work illuminating a page from Dante’s Divine Comedy. The 14th-century m...
An effigy on the tomb of Edward of Woodstock, the first Prince of Wales who was also known as The Black Prince, gives us a glimpse of how he appeared ...
Helping to unite England, Elizabeth of York marries Henry Tudor.
Britain needs an effective warning system to alert the country if Spain sends an Armada of ships with invading soldiers aboard.
Acting on behalf of Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor and nephew of Catherine of Aragon, Eustace Chapuys sent many letters to Charles describing the K...
When people have a very contagious disease, how do doctors keep from getting sick, too?
This image—from a never-completed work—portrays David (writer of Psalms and Israelite King). It was created by a miniaturist working...
Someone is buried in a grave near the Kirklees Priory gatehouse. Legends say the grave belongs to Robin Hood.
In "The Great Chronicle of France of Charles V," we learn - among other things - that during medieval times the people of France believed they may hav...
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