Articles with keyword "Middle Ages"
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Amid Rubble and Myth
Excavations beneath Florence's cathedral reveal a church for a saint that never was.
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A Personal Reminiscence
Reflections on the approach of an "improper medievalist" to feasting, the body, and death.
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From the Medieval to the Modern
1999 Jefferson Lecturer Caroline Walker Bynum talks about the legacy of the Middle Ages to the present day.
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High Finance
For clients ranging from courtesans to Voltaire, notaries served as financial advisers in eighteenth-century France.
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The Body of Christ
Theology became flesh and blood in the sacred street theater of medieval England.
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Dating Fashionable Middle-Aged People
A scholar's epic journey to catalog two hundred years of medieval dress.
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Rufus Refused Credit
Modest Medieval scholar's commentaries on Aristotle come to light after five hundred years
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Where Town Meets Gown
Site on medieval history, broad in scope, ranges from the totally wacky to materials that are deep and philosophically chellenging.





