iPhone app iPad app Android phone app Android tablet app

Middle Ages

One Of The Middle Ages' Greatest Artworks Is Back On View

Agence France Presse | | Posted 04.18.2013 | Arts
Read More: Tokyo National Art Center, Middle Age Tapestries, The Lady and the Unicorn Tapestries, Famous Tapestries, Middle Ages, Medieval Art, The Lady and the Unicorn, Medieval Tapestries, Arts News

The tapestry cycle "The Lady and the Unicorn", considered one of the greatest artworks of Europe's Middle Ages, is being sent to Japan for six months ...

Read Whole Story

The Golden Age Of Islam

Sasha Brookner | Posted 03.26.2013 | Religion
Read More: Prophet Muhammad, Islam, Egalitarian Islam, History of Islam, Islamic Theology, Golden Age of Islam, Middle Ages, Slideexpand, Religion News
Sasha Brookner

There was a Golden Age to Islam once -- a Muslim Renaissance so magnificent, famous, cosmopolitan and cerebral that it's borders didn't always bleed. This era unequivocally produced some of the most enlightened thinkers throughout the Islamic Diaspora.

Read Whole Story

Hellish Imagery From The Middle Ages

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.29.2012 | Arts
Read More: Manuscript, Middle Ages, Religious Art, Hieronymus Bosch, Surrealism, Los Angeles Art, Slideexpand, Heaven and Hell, The Getty Center, Os Gemeos, Religion, Video, Inferno, Getty, Hell, Heaven, Arts News

While today the word "hell" is often used in situations involving long lines and a lack of caffeine, in the Middle Ages hell was darker, hotter and ha...

Read Whole Story

9 Medieval Assassinations That Changed The Course Of History

Robin LaFevers | Posted 06.06.2012 | Books
Read More: Slidepollajax, Medieval Assassinations, Medieval Period, The Middle Ages, Assassinations, Middle Ages, Books News
Robin LaFevers

The mythos of the assassin fascinates even as it horrifies. It fascinates because it allows for the actions of one to bring down a corrupt or tyrannical regime that has no avenue of redress for those not in power.

Read Whole Story

New Study Reveals Who Brought Mice To America

| Posted 03.19.2012 | Science
Read More: Mus Musculus Domesticus, Mice, Video, Viking, Age of Exploration, Middle Ages, Greenland, Invasive Species, House Mouse, Mouse, Iceland, Science News

Four-legged stowaways hitched a ride aboard the wooden 10th- and 11th-century Viking ships that braved the northern seas. The probably numerous passen...

Read Whole Story

The Surefire Way to End Online Piracy: End Copyright

Dean Baker | Posted 03.24.2012 | Business
Read More: Innovation, Piracy, Copyright, Sopa, Copyright Infringement, Creative Community, Digital Age, Middle Ages, Online Piracy, Business News
Dean Baker

The institution of copyright dates back to the late middle ages. It may have served a useful function back then, but we will need something better for the Internet Age.

Read Whole Story

PHOTOS: Getty Exhibit Explores Medieval Fashion

Posted 09.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: King David, The Getty Center, Religion, Medieval, Office of the Dead, Byzantium, Illuminated Manuscript, Middle Ages, Christianity, Fashion, Armenia, Fashion in the Middle Ages, Arts News

In the Middle Ages in Europe, you were doing pretty well if you even had time to think about fashion. The images in the slideshow below, from illumina...

Read Whole Story

Opening to a Late Night Show Aired in the Middle Ages

Doug Lieblich | Posted 06.15.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Late Night Shows, Dwarves, Guillotine, Feudalism, Monologue, Burbank, Middle Ages, Comedy News
Doug Lieblich

Spies from France have reported that Louis VI has refused a marriage arrangement with Eleanor of Aquitaine. Apparently, Louis canceled the nuptials, stating that he already had swine on his manor.

Read Whole Story

June 15: King John Signs Magna Carta

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Taxes, The Internet, Jews, Latin, Economics, Church of England, United Kingdom, Magna Carta, Rent, England, Limited Government, Middle Ages, Monarchy, Rich People, Constitutional Law, King Arthur, Land, Robber Barons, Medieval Times, High School, Middle School, June, UK Monarchy, Social Hierarchy, Constitution, Comedy News, Comedy, Comedy News
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen

Many people, especially those who write articles on this subject for Wikipedia, would say the Magna Carta is the most influential and important foundation of constitutional law.

Read Whole Story

Following a Stint at the Met, the Mourners Travel to Six American Museums

Susan Eley | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: France, Dijon, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Middle Ages, Mourners, New York News
Susan Eley

I ran, not walked to the Met to see these statues after reading that the historian Johan Huizinga proclaimed them the most profound expression of mourning in the history of art.

Read Whole Story

Short Story Month: "The Ladies of Grace Adieu"

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: England, Literature, Short Stories, Jane Austen, Books, Middle Ages, Susanna Clarke, Christianity, Victorian England, Fantasy, Books News
Ilana Teitelbaum

Set in the same universe as that of her novel Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke's "The Ladies of Grace Adieu" stands on its own as a series of glittering dark tales that draw on the legends of northern Europe.

Read Whole Story

Happy St. Patrck's Day: 'How The Irish Saved Civilization' (POLL)

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Celtic, Kells, St. Patrick's Day, Irish Civilization, Ireland, St. Patrick, Irish, Middle Ages, Book of Kells, Poll, Books News

Happy St. Patrick's Day! It was the time of St. Patrick himself to which author Thomas Cahill refers in the title of his book, "How the Irish Saved Ci...

Read Whole Story

Why Democrats Are Losing on Health Care

Thomas Frank | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Epidemics, Lyndon Johnson, E Coli, Barack Obama, New Deal, Swine Flu, Health Care Reform, Wall Street Journal, Society, Democrats, Health Care, Calvinism, Middle Ages, Uncle Sam, Home News
Thomas Frank

If universal health insurance goes down to defeat, Democrats will have to live with the shame of having been beaten by arguments that a novice debater would have no trouble putting down.

Read Whole Story

Shut That Vagina Down: The Nadya Suleman Misconception(s)

Warren Holstein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Angela Suleman, In Vitro Fertilization, Reproductive Rights, Middle Ages, Science, Reproductive Health, California Octuplets, Nadya Suleman, Fertility, Pro-Life, Babies, Medicine, Bioethics, Suleman Octuplets, The Vagina Monologues, Vagina, Wtf, Nadja Suleman, Suleman Babies, Nadya Suleman Wtf, Comedy News
Warren Holstein

I mean its ridiculous. A baby momma 14 times over should not be living with her parents in a modest 3-bedroom house in Bellflower, California.

Read Whole Story

The Power of the Powerless: The Rise of the Economic Scapegoat

Daniel Cubias | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Economic Slowdown, Latinos, Hispanic, Immigration, Martin Scorsese, Middle Ages, Illegal Immigration, Politics News
Daniel Cubias

Any sensible discussion of immigration reform is doomed once it's declared that a guy making sub-minimum wage who lives in constant fear of deportation is really the secret strongman.

Read Whole Story