THE CORNERSTONE (482 pp.)—Zoé Oldenbourg—Pantheon ($4.50). This artfully written French historical novel plunges its readers into the violence of an epoch when knighthood was in flower but life was no ...
This fall, six Princeton undergraduate students in the course “Arts of the Medieval Book” are exploring the technology and function of books through a historical perspective. Working firsthand with ...
Monasteries, manuscripts and slow thought shaped centuries of ideas about God, reason and human duty. Medieval philosophy wrestled with faith and logic side by side, building foundations still felt ...
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Medieval MummeryTHE FOOL OF VENUS—George Cronyn —Covici, Friede ($3). Of the ten long years that went to the making of The Fool of Venus, eight were spent on research and the other two were wasted. In ...
Several years ago, I spent a rainy afternoon at the Wellcome Library in London examining a 15th-century birthing girdle. The eagle-eyed curator watched my every move, making sure I didn’t touch the ...
For a long time, medieval medicine has been dismissed as irrelevant. This time period is popularly referred to as the “Dark Ages,” which erroneously suggests that it was unenlightened by science or ...
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