Historians recently unearthed some "health hacks" dating back to the Middle Ages – and some sound like they came straight off TikTok. The database, called the Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine, ...
Before the first printing press was invented in the 15th century, books had to be made by hand. It was the monks who were usually put to work making parchment and ink, writing out text, and binding ...
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See How These Medieval Artists Explored the Many Meanings of Love and Desire in a New Exhibition at the Met Cloisters
The show features more than 50 paintings, manuscripts, textiles and other artworks created in Western Europe between the 13th ...
This 12th-century manuscript includes a self-portrait of a female scribe named Guda. Ommundsen et al. / Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2025 During the Middle Ages, it was common to ...
In “Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife” the historian Hetta Howes seeks to relate to figures of the past. By Erin Maglaque Erin Maglaque is a historian and writer. She is currently at work on a history of the ...
A woman walking in the Czech Republic stumbled upon more than 2,150 early medieval silver coins. Originally stored in a ceramic pot during a time of political turmoil, the coins have sat in place ...
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