The medieval prayer book looks modern from the outside, with its sleek white leather cover added by a conservator for safekeeping. Open the pages, however, and peer into a bygone era. There, images of ...
A half-man, half-bird beast playing a flute. A cat’s head popping out of a snail shell. A woman barfing up a tiny demon. These are just some of the otherworldly critters that scribes in the Middle ...
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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 survived, and no historian had reason to wonder who she was. But when ...
Medieval imagery wasn’t meant to be funny when it was made hundreds of years ago, but all over Instagram it has been remixed, captioned, and somehow reads as peak hilarious — depending on your sense ...
High-resolution digital images can give us a great view of a work of art, but static, two-dimensional images cannot compare to the experience of seeing something right before your eyes – there's ...
WASHINGTON — 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 survived, and no historian had reason to wonder who she was.
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