Band of Wild Petticoats

Things, and the preservation of things, was as important in the Middle Ages as today. Image from a 15th-century edition of Boccaccio's...

As will happen while obsessively pursuing details about the life and posthumous fame of a single historical figure, a moment of pur...

Isabel de Aragão, Queen of Portugal, arrives at Santiago de Compostela after completing a long pilgrimage on foot. Painting by Antonio d...

This morning I brought my camera with me to the university campus to document the gorgeous display of autumn foliage, to which I am daily...

A good place to imagine a medieval world This is the chair in which I read a great deal about the denizens of medieval Europe and imagin...

I used to believe that there were only two kinds of places one could end up: a place near the sea or a place in the mountains. For years I ...

After almost four full months of silence I am finally back on the horse, firmly in the blogging saddle, grasping the reigns of recreational ...

Matteo da Milano (active 1492-1523) - Getty The sturdy vellum pages of pre- and early- modern manuscripts will likely prove capable of o...

Orpheus and Eurydice by Sir Edward John Poynter (19th century) The last couple of posts ( here , here , and here ) have dealt with the w...

Detail from Masaccio's painting of the Expulsion of Adam and Eve in the Brancacci Chapel The many star-crossed lovers of yesterday...

Tristan and Iseult by Edmund Blair Leighton (1853-1922) Yesterday's post  began a discussion on the curious intersection of love an...