When knights and castles served kings and queens, a feudal system employed peasants and vassals. Uneducated people used art to learn stories they could not read for themselves. This collection is about life in the Middle Ages.
Matthew Paris, who died in 1259, created this illumination depicting Saladin and Guy de Lusignan fighting over a relic known as the "Sacred Cross" dur...
Making their way through the various parts of the Inferno, Dante and Virgil come to the "Ninth Circle of Hell." There they see a gigantic figure...
In the fall of 1187, Saladin and his forces besieged the city of Jerusalem. It was not the first time the ancient city was subjected to a siege by for...
This painting of King Sigismund I, from Poland, was created by Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515-1586) around 1553. The oil-on-tin plate measures 19.5 ...
Because English ships could not easily penetrate the Spanish crescent formation, the Brits had to use different tactics to attack the Armada.
As Britain's ships are stuck in Plymouth Harbor, awaiting a turn of the tide and wind direction, Spanish ships pass by. They have been ordered, by the...
It is the 29th of July, 1588, and a huge fleet of ships - known as the Spanish Armada - approaches the English Channel. The future of Britain hangs in...
As ships of the Spanish Armada continued to make their way east, in the English Channel, neither side had harmed the other. Although two Spanish...
As an unfavorable wind began pushing Spanish ships toward the sand banks of Flanders, priests on board ship began hearing the sailors' last confession...
During the 14th century, when the plague struck Europe, even doctors were unsure what was happening.
How did medieval people make glass? Our understanding of their process comes to us by way of a book by Theophilus.Who was Theophilus?Most scholars bel...
William Wallace was betrayed near a well in Robroystan, Scotland. This image depicts that well.
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