The nude—the unclothed or partially clothed human body—has been featured in European art for millennia. After 1400, with the waning of the Middle Ages, artists depicted nudes as increasingly ...

setting the illuminating practice in the bestiary tradition apart from other manuscript genres in Europe during the Middle Ages. Grid with Nine Animals (detail) from On the Properties of Things (text ...

Surveying the major genres of European book arts between the 7th-15th centuries ... to create an original artist's book for the final project. A study of Chaucer's art with reference to the ...

To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. In The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, Geraldine Heng questions the ...

With the slow developmen of European society from the dark ages between the fall of the Roman empire ... These songs aer examples of the courtly love found in the previous century's vocal art, and ...

The art of reading was one part of it. Women also learned to read at court ... In particular, the Arthurian romances of Chrétien de Troyes had a strong influence on European literature in the Middle ...

The establishment and development of the university in the European Middle Ages made a specific contribution to global culture and global history. Earlier monastic and cathedral schools had been more ...

In the Central Middle Ages, Western European armsbearers also waged war under the banner of the cross ... These developments in castle-building were accompanied by linked developments in the art of ...