What did medieval royalty do for fun? In this video, we explore six fascinating ways kings, queens, and nobles entertained themselves during the Middle Ages. From extravagant feasts and high-stakes ...

This is especially apparent from the many romances written in Iceland during the late Middle Ages. Sexual self-control determined whether or not one was recognised as chivalrous. A true knight ...

In the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance, Europeans knew that unicorns were real. After all, their horns were the treasured possessions of royalty, nobility, and even clergy. Charles VI of ...

But even in the late Middle Ages, when life expectancy was considerably lower, youth was a flexible category that could expand well into the late 20s and even 30s. So what were the defining ...

Something in keeping with the era in which she lived, the late Middle Ages, which was not the best time for women to stand out with paper and pen because their conception then – even later, in the ...

Visitors to the exhibition Now and Forever: the Art of Medieval Time, at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York, will find that the Middle Ages are ... Medieval European royalty counted the ...

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Corporations and monetary systems, he said, are vestiges of the late Middle Ages when kings and aristocrats were struggling to exert some kind of authority over the fast-rising mercantile class ...

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 ...