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Medieval painters gave dogs human faces to symbolize cowardice
In the Retable de la Passion, an oil-on-wood altarpiece from around 1500, a small dog sits among the crowd at Christ's trial. It has grey stubble, a weak chin, and an expression that's unsettlingly ...
An important feudal farm in medieval times, covering 1100ha, the complex of farm buildings provided a secure retreat for the surrounding farms in the 12th century, and is recorded in early manuscripts ...
Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ,” which opened on Ash Wednesday, has inspired an argument over its revival of medieval Passion Play content, and whether such a project risks a revival of ...
With radiant harmonies and cascading polyphony, early music has beguiled Miller audiences since the theater's founding. Today's masters of period performance bring this ancient music to life, each ...
It's a period of human history marked by rampant economic inequality, entrenched sexism, horrific violence and the Black Death, but our fascination with the Middle Ages only seems to grow stronger.
Katy Fleischmann reappeared in her living room with a shield. She was still looking for the rest of her 80-pound battlefield gear. “I'm not sure where I put my sword,” Fleischmann said one recent ...
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