One night last July, the Tallahassee air full of the smell of semi-tropical rain and azaleas, drinking my third glass of a heavy red wine and listening to YouTube videos one after another on my laptop ...

Often when we hear the word "crusade" we picture Richard the Lionhearted galloping off to the Holy Land with an army bent on recapturing Jerusalem. The Albigensian Crusade was a terrible chapter in ...

Laurie Shepard is an Associate Professor of Italian at Boston College. Her specialty is Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, with a particular focus on lyric poetry, rhetoric, and historical ...

Music in Art, Vol. 37, No. 1/2, The Courts in Europe: Music Iconography and Princely Power (Spring—Fall 2012), pp. 265-273 (9 pages) De Chirico's mannequins are personifications of the clairvoyant ...

Although medieval music, in existence for over eight centuries, is still heard in one form or another on radio stations around the world and in movies, no one knows how it should rightfully sound ...

Giles Gasper receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, The Leverhulme Trust, and Research England. The great hall is one of the most enduring images from the middle ages – and ...