This collection brings together three late medieval portrayals of women. An examination of the materiality and iconography of these depictions shows how they communicate deeper ideas about female ...

This film explores European life from 1200 to 1500, highlighting the significance of art in documenting this ... the rise of the middle class, and the transformative effects of the Black Death.

The display mounted here shows objects currently being researched by students and the instructor of ARTH 400: Anthropological Approaches to Late Medieval and Renaissance Art. The images display a ...

Art of Europe’s ... communities of men and women who dedicated their lives to the service of God, flourished. In the darkest days of the early Middle Ages, when almost no one could read ...

This is especially apparent from the many romances written in Iceland during the late Middle Ages. Sexual self-control ... She retained the innocence that other women had lost.

In the late Middle Ages, women wore tightly laced bodices stiffened with paste to control and smooth their figures. In the 16 th century, however, as the great voyages of discovery across the ...

“As you know,” wrote Boston’s late ... Middle Ages. Last week Bostonians who floundered through Fenway snowdrifts to the museum found there the finest loan exhibition of medieval art ...