All posts tagged "Middle Ages"
Art
Crossing Borders: Manuscripts from the Bodleian Libraries — Jewish Museum of New York
March 14, 2026To look at one of the treasures on display in this wonderful exhibit, the Kennicott Bible,...
Art
Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
November 19, 2025The Metropolitan Museum exhibition charts the fascinating, if complex, process of cultural transformation that took place...
Historical Fiction
In Case You Missed… Christopher Smith’s Black Death
August 20, 2025Most movies like Black Death exploit the historical context to take shots at organized religion with...
Art & Design
Art Review: Albrecht Dürer: Virtuoso Printmaker at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
May 23, 2025The earlier prints from each series are flatter, the lines more bold and calligraphic, the details...
Art & Design
A New Look at Rome’s Rousing Middle Ages
April 2, 2025When its doors first opened in 1734, the Capitoline Museum, which stands upon the hilltop that...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Travels of Marco Polo Translated by W. Marsden
April 1, 2025It seems that world is more fantastic than our own travel brochures today can suggest for...
Fiction Reviews
Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell
March 23, 2025Much more serious, though, is the book’s take on the medieval world as a whole. Alongside...
Spain
God’s Crucible by David Levering Lewis
February 28, 2025For English-speaking peoples, 1066 and 1776 still evoke powerful recollections of liberty lost and freedom won....
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