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.
Thomas Boleyn, by all contemporary accounts, was a very ambitious man. This image presents a disputed portrait of him.
Playing a key role in supporting Henry VIII's decision to split from papal authority in England, Thomas Cranmer grants the King a dispensation to divo...
A scholar with impressive credentials, Thomas More becomes Lord Chancellor. That is before he disagrees with Henry VIII's position on papal authority ...
People have been exchanging Valentines for hundreds of years, but what do we know about the origins of this romantic Day of Love called "Valentine's D...
Vatican Hill (known, in Latin, as Vaticanus Mons) is a Roman hill located on the opposite side of the Tiber River from the more commonly known "seven ...
Domenikos Theotokopoulos (1541-1614), a famous painter better known as El Greco (“The Greek”), painted several views of the Spanish city o...
This image depicts a page from the Visconti Book of Hours. The original illumination - created by Luchino Belbello da Pavia, circa 1430 - measures&nbs...
One of Europe's six patron saints, St. Bridget was born in Sweden.
Westminster Abbey - formally known as "The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster" - has been the scene of royal coronations (and other royal ev...
An epic is a story, usually in the form of a narrative poem, featuring a hero who prevails despite terrible odds.
William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, prevailed at the Battle of Senlac (also referred to as the Battle of Hastings) in 1066. His victory is known ...
Ordered to travel to London, to stand trial for treason, Cardinal Wolsey stops at Leicester Abbey in November of 1530. He dies there, soon after his a...
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