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A new exhibition in Dublin showcases historic manuscripts written in Irish monasteries. The show also features medieval ...
Michael Gordon’s site-specific “The Forest of Metal Objects” surrounds precious art and architecture with the music of chains ...
The Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University announces the twenty-ninth Otto Gründler Book Prize to be awarded at the 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 8-10, 2025). It ...
AMMAN — "I've made up a word Islamesque as a direct challenge to the concept of Romanesque because Romanesque architecture is what in European art history comes before Gothic, " said Diana Darke at ...
Forgotten Muslim builders gave medieval Europe its iconic architecture Historian Diana Darke argues in “Islamesque” that Europe’s monuments owe a vast debt to Muslim craftsmen and designers ...
Archaeologists recently discovered proof of a gladiatorial fight with a lion in an unexpected tourist destination. York, a city in northern England known for its breathtaking medieval architecture ...
Researchers were surprised to find some medieval books covered in seal skins 12th century French monks used animal skins to bind and cover their books.
The Clairvaux Abbey in Champagne, France, holds nearly 1,500 medieval books written by scribes of the Cistercian Catholic religious order. ... A Journey Through Medieval European Architecture.
The property includes two main buildings that were both meticulously designed to replicate medieval architecture. The "Trivium" is the main house and features four bedrooms, six bathrooms, a guest ...
MONTICELLO — A private gravel road, guarded by giant trees in the middle of what feels like nowhere, leads to a modern, medieval castle-inspired home that's now on the market. A storm-cloud ...
As early as 1964, the British architectural historian Ian Nairn identified the fatal flaws in modern architecture, saying that it “is hamstrung by self-consciousness and strangled by ...