Articles with keyword "Middle Ages"
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The Body of Christ
By James Williford
Theology became flesh and blood in the sacred street theater of medieval England.
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Dating Fashionable Middle-Aged People
By Katy Werlin
A scholar's epic journey to catalog two hundred years of medieval dress.
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Rufus Refused Credit
By Steve Moyer
Modest Medieval scholar's commentaries on Aristotle come to light after five hundred years
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Crowning Achievement
By Steve Moyer
Fifteenth-century French painter Jean Fouquet was a curious artist—
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Where Town Meets Gown
By Corinne Zeman
Site on medieval history, broad in scope, ranges from the totally wacky to materials that are deep and philosophically chellenging.
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Thieves of Pleasure
By Jerrilynn D. Dodds, María Rosa Menocal, and Abigail Krasner
A vicious fraternal war rewards Alfonso VI with the artistic and poetic treasures of al-Andalus.
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How to Lose Weight and Gain Power
From The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of a Castilian Culture, © 2008 by Jerrilynn D. Dodds, María Rosa Menocal, and Abigail Krasner Balbale.
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Dante: Auctor, Autore
By Steve Moyer
The question of authority among writers nags us less today than it did in the late Middle Ages, when poets and philosophers began daring to pen their works in the vernacular.
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Impertinent Questions with Lewis Hyde
By David Skinner
On the "commons" of intellectual property.