While the fool is often associated with the Middle Ages, the figure’s role evolved a great deal in the centuries that ...

In the Middle Ages, as today, visual art offered an avenue to explore, affirm, and sometimes challenge social roles and relationships. Medieval people defined themselves and their neighbors through ...

In Poland the miraculous birth of the Saviour has been widely represented through a range of works inspired by Matthew and Luke's literary depictions in evangelical texts, from Romanesque Art through ...

B. J. Robinson, Ph.D. Laura Getty, Ph.D. Bonnie J. (B.J.) Robinson, Ph.D., is the Director of the University of North Georgia Press and a professor of English at the University of North Georgia. She ...

Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a period of massive social change, burgeoning nationalism, international conflict, terrible natural disaster, climate change, rebellion ...

Breton’s late treatise on magic and art appears for the first time in English, complete with citations, commentaries and a ...

In the world of chandelier design, few work harder to ensure that the art form survives than Régis ... chandeliers dating back as far as the Middle Ages. Housed in a former factory that made ...