Unlike much of the art produced in the intervening centuries, works made in the Middle Ages served specific religious purposes and functions. Reliquaries are a great example of this divide between ...

In the Middle Ages, as today, visual art offered an avenue to explore, affirm, and sometimes challenge social roles and relationships. Medieval people defined themselves and their neighbors through ...

Venice used new art commissions to help its citizens understand the changing nature of power and quell public anxiety during ...

Cats wearing clothes and playing musical instruments.These are part of a treasure trove of medieval animal illustrations that ...

Public domain. For nearly forty years, Early Drama, Art, and Music (EDAM) has established a reputation for publishing specialized, high-quality scholarship through Medieval Institute Publications. The ...

March is National Women’s History Month, and there are many things people do to commemorate that. During the Middle Ages in ...

The series' editorial board is hosted by the Index of Medieval Art at Princeton University. Edited by Jessica Brantley, Stephen Perkinson and Elizabeth C. Teviotdale This volume offers fresh ...

It was used to describe medieval culture, particularly art and architecture. People in the Middle Ages had not called their own culture Gothic - the term was applied retrospectively as an insult.

Medieval art is full of unicorns. One famous example is the series of tapestries known as the Lady and the Unicorn, which now hang in the Musée Cluny in Paris. And the artworks have an unexpected ...