Unlike much of the art produced in the intervening centuries, works made in the Middle Ages served specific religious purposes and functions. Reliquaries are a great example of this divide between ...

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 ...

This concept entails using art to justify human existence in the face of changing ... of celebration questions traditional assumptions of great divides between the Middle Ages and Early Modernity and ...

There’s a reassuring sense that even in the 14th century, there was a lot going on well outside the mainstream ...

exploring how the figure of the fool evolved between the Middle Ages and the 19th century Julia Binswanger Dating to the fifth and sixth centuries C.E., the burials held a trove of grave goods ...