Medieval woman’s hidden art career revealed by blue teeth
About 1,000 years ago, a woman in Germany died and was buried in an unmarked grave in a church cemetery. No record of her life
16 January 2019
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J. Paul Getty Museum opens “Women in the Medieval World”
Modern portrayals of medieval women tend toward stereotypical images of damsels in distress, mystics in convents, female laborers in the fields, and even women of
23 June 2017
Neurological condition probably caused medieval scribe’s shaky handwriting
Scribes usually have pretty good handwriting. That’s not the case for one prolific 13th century writer known to scholars only as the Tremulous Hand of
8 October 2015
Gould Library hosts exhibit exploring medieval manuscripts
A new exhibit in the Carleton College Laurence McKinley Gould Library explores medieval manuscripts and how medieval peoples produced and derived meaning from word and
2 November 2014
Illuminations – Treasures of the Middle Ages
Illuminations – Treasures of the Middle Ages BBC Documentary Art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon visits an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, which contains a treasure
11 June 2014
Medieval scholar finds rare prayer book
University of South Carolina English professor Scott Gwara had sorted through 32 lots of medieval books and manuscripts in a London auction house when he
14 September 2012
Bangor Pontifical doodles show us the middle ages were juvenile, too
On the reams of choral chants in this Welsh medieval treasure I spotted a scribble of a man with a big nose. Satire hasn’t changed
15 December 2010
Getty Exhibition will Celebrate Pinnacle of Manuscript Illumination in France
History played such an integral role in defining national identity in France throughout the high Middle Ages that some of the finest illumination of the
1 August 2010
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