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Calling Lords, Ladies, young squires and noble maidens, the Shreveport Regional Arts Council calls upon thy neighbors to join ...
Why and how are an Upstate South Carolina town and an ancient Northern Italian area connected? Textile economies, mountain ...
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Rothenburg Ob Der Tauber
Explore the medieval charm of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, located in Bavaria, Germany. This picturesque town captivates visitors with its well-preserved medieval atmosphere, where the Town Hall, ...
Is loneliness a modern epidemic as we are so often told? Did people in the past suffer similar feelings of isolation?
In 1998, excavations were conducted in advance of the construction of the Oude Vismarkt square in Aalst, Belgium. During ...
Uses and Abuses of Power” is a program meant to assure audiences that questions of the present have confronted people in the ...
Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into the binding of another ...
“Grammatical and spelling rules were established much later.” But it was common to discard and repurpose old medieval manuscripts by the end of the 16th century as printing became popular and ...
“This system, known as skeleton construction, was common in the medieval Mediterranean and spread throughout Europe from the mid-15th century.” The ICUB stipulated that the ship is “in a ...
Known as medieval neumes, the squiggles didn't indicate ... recycled into a book binding or cover at some point in time, a common practice known as manuscript "waste". When Western's rare ...
But the common image of medieval people as slovenly, unwashed, and lacking hygiene is false. In fact, both indoor and outdoor bathing were beloved in Europe. People not only made and used soap at ...