History of Art: Byzantine & Medieval Art c 500 CE to c 1400

The V&A's collection of ivory carvings from the period 1200 to 1550 is one of the most important in the world, and this is the first catalogue ...

First translation of two vivid accounts of French thirteenth-century tournaments, rich in detail and an impassioned defence of tournaments and thei...

Cambridge University Library's collection of illuminated manuscripts is of international significance. It originates in the medieval university and...

Friars transformed the relationship of the church to laymen by taking religion outside to public and domestic spaces. Mendicant commitment to apost...

Furusiyya in the East meets Chivalry in the West. Discover how these distinct practices of combat and knightly values led to a specific culture in ...

The subject of this book is the so-called London Qazvn, an early 14th-century illustrated Arabic copy of al-Qazvn's The Wonders of Creation and the...

Aside from Hagia Sophia, the monuments of the Byzantine East are poorly understood today. This is in sharp contrast to the well-known architectural...

A compelling and vivid narrative history of one of the founding civilizations of the modern world, the Byzantine empire, evocatively told through t...

The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture (GEMAA) offers unparalleled coverage of all aspects of art and architecture from Medieval W...

An authoritative survey situating some of the Western worlds most renowned buildings within a millennium of Islamic history Some of the most outsta...

During the European Middle Ages, diagrams provided a critical tool of analysis in cosmological and theological debates. In addition to drawing rela...

The Livre des faits de Jacques de Lalaing (Book of the Deeds of Jacques de Lalaing), a famous Flemish illuminated manuscript, relays the audacious ...

The ways of war in the Middle Ages never cease to fascinate. There is a glamour associated with knights in shining armour, colourful tournaments an...

The widespead and numerous Romanesque churches in the northern half of Spain rival those of France for their distinctiveness and originality and fo...

Though immediately recognizable in public discourse as a modern state in a political hot zone, Armenia has a material history and visual culture th...