The Middle Ages are, not quite without warrant, condemned as an era of intellectual stagnation, a period with no art, no literature, no science, and no philosophy. The best literature of the ancient ...
In the Middle Ages, flowers and plants were imbued with rich symbolism, deeply connected to religion, culture, and literature ...
In this course, the art of the later Middle Ages from approximately 1300 to the 1530s will be studied from a perspective where the art works are seen as manifestations of the visual culture of the ...
Assignments include the option to create an original artist's book for the final project. A study of Chaucer's art with reference to the intellectual, social, and literary conventions of the Middle ...
The book is a path-breaking contribution to the study of metalwork in the Middle Ages and to the re-evaluation of medieval art more broadly, presenting an understudied body of work to reconsider what ...
The Medieval Gallery, which stands at 14 High St, brought back the lost world of the arts of the castle, manor house and ...