One of the most interesting manuscripts of the late Middle Ages is now available online - The Geese Book, a lavishly and whimsically illuminated, two-volume liturgical book, can now be accessed through a project from the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

Christine de Pizan (also given as Christine de Pisan, l. 1364 - c. 1430) was the first female professional writer of the Middle Ages and the first woman of letters in France. Her best-known works advocated...

In the late Middle Ages, the Anglo-French word pelfre, meaning 'booty' or 'stolen goods,' was borrowed into English as pelf with the added meaning of 'property.' (Pelfre is also an ancestor of the

The Middle Ages, in their philosophy and theology, were the true "Age of Reason." Our own day, for all of our science, relies more on "faith." So says David Breitenbeck, though he doesn't quite have the right definition of "faith."

Being a woman or being a man used to mean that you had a certain code of behavior that you had to follow especially when interacting with the other sex. It meant that you had a particular set of responsibilities, a list of DOs & DON’Ts and that...

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Timeline for the Middle Ages from 500 A.D. to 1500 A.D. Summary of Events Timeline Timeline Key Dates Middle Ages Timeline of Key events Middle Ages History Timeline of Key Events 1066 -1154 1066-1087 The reign of King William the Conqueror The Battle of Hastings and the defeat of Harold Godwinson

On a research trip last summer, I found a previously unidentified thirteenth-century manuscript in a library in Poznan, Poland, and recognized that it contains the writings of a late twelfth-century monk named Engelhard of Langheim. One of the Latin texts in this manuscript is the saintly biography of a religious woman named Mechtilde of Diessen.

In Middle Age Europe, animals were popular storytellers.

Les aquamaniles sont de beaux objets zoomorphes en bronze ou en laiton qui servaient au lavage des mains au Moyen Âge.

Saint Thomas Aquinas, Italian Dominican theologian and Roman Catholic saint, the foremost medieval Scholastic. He was responsible for the classical systematization of Latin theology, and he wrote some of the most gravely beautiful eucharistic hymns in the church’s liturgy. Learn more about Aquinas’s life and work.

Continuamos nuestra serie sobre el retrato y en esta ocasión presentamos un informe especial del autorretrato, una de las expresiones fotográficas más importantes que ha encontrado una época de oro…

While the imagery of women and children is greatly depicted throughout the history of art, pregnancy in art is much more of a rare sight.

Strange, Trippy And Perverted Pictures From Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts

What kind of material did people use to make clothing in the Middle Ages, and what types of outfits did medieval people wear?

During the medieval period, European universities taught the same broad curriculum, although some chose to study a slightly different selection of...

Who wrote the first English poem? Caedmon is the name of the earliest known English poet, and "Caedmon's Hymn" is his late-7th-century poem.