All posts tagged "Middle Ages"
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Non-Fiction Reviews
God’s Crucible by David Levering Lewis
November 22, 2023For English-speaking peoples, 1066 and 1776 still evoke powerful recollections of liberty lost and freedom won....
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Art & Design
Crossing Borders: Manuscripts from the Bodleian Libraries — Jewish Museum of New York
July 28, 2023To look at one of the treasures on display in this wonderful exhibit, the Kennicott Bible,...
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Art & Design
Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
March 24, 2023The Metropolitan Museum exhibition charts the fascinating, if complex, process of cultural transformation that took place...
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Thrillers
In Case You Missed… Christopher Smith’s Black Death
December 15, 2022Most movies like Black Death exploit the historical context to take shots at organized religion with...
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Art & Design
Art Review: Albrecht Dürer: Virtuoso Printmaker at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
September 21, 2022The earlier prints from each series are flatter, the lines more bold and calligraphic, the details...
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Archeology
A New Look at Rome’s Rousing Middle Ages
August 3, 2022When its doors first opened in 1734, the Capitoline Museum, which stands upon the hilltop that...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Travels of Marco Polo Translated by W. Marsden
July 31, 2022It seems that world is more fantastic than our own travel brochures today can suggest for...
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Fiction Reviews
Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell
July 22, 2022Much more serious, though, is the book’s take on the medieval world as a whole. Alongside...
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