How did Gothic art influence the modernists? An exhibition in Norway explores how artists like Dürer and Hans Holbein's ...

Before the first printing press was invented in the 15th century, books had to be made by hand. It was the monks who were usually put to work making parchment and ink, writing out text, and ...

Women contributed more extensively to Medieval manuscript production ... Unlike many in the art world, we are not beholden to large corporations or billionaires. Our journalism is funded ...

With kohl-lined eyes and a cunning smirk, the Muslim in these films is treacherous and has animal-like meat-eating habits, alongside an insatiable appetite for women. In some films like Padmaavat ...

"A lot of people associate beer with men, but women were actually the first known brewers," says harpist Olivia Jageurs, of the classical trio Erda Ensemble, ahead of a night of music about lady ...

Many medieval novels, TV shows and books portray midwives as women with at least some form ... her exceptional knowledge and expertise in the art of healing and childbirth. It’s a trope that ...

But to fully delve into what personal style means in a modern context, we have to start somewhere within its loose history.

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First, researchers turned to an existing catalogue of Benedictine colophons, reviewing all 23,774 entries for linguistic ...

New research suggests that women were the scribes of at least 1.1 percent of manuscripts in the Latin West between 400 and 1500 C.E.