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

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

The rebirth of realistic representation in Italy around 1300 led to the materialization of a pictorial language, which dominated Western art until ...

As a 'biography' of the fourteenth-century illustrated Bible of Clement VII, an opposition pope in Avignon from 1378-94, this social history traces...

The first monograph on the Vita Humana cycle at Tre Fontane, this book includes an overview of the medieval history of the Roman Cistercian abbey a...

Though long recognized as one of the most beautiful works from the second half of the thirteenth century, the magnificent sculptural program of the...

Engaging with the imaginative, nonreligious response to Gothic sculpture in German-speaking lands and tracing high and late medieval notions of the...

In this new edition of A Short History of the Middle Ages, Barbara H. Rosenwein offers a panoramic view of the medieval world. Volume I ranges from...

In this new edition of A Short History of the Middle Ages, Barbara H. Rosenwein offers a panoramic view of the medieval world. Volume II ranges fro...

The cult of the Christ Child flourished in late medieval Europe across lay and religious, as well as geographic and cultural boundaries. Depictions...

In this new edition of A Short History of the Middle Ages, Barbara H. Rosenwein offers a panoramic view of the medieval world from Iceland to China...

A Short Medieval Reader contains the essential primary sources for exploring the Middle Ages in depth. Designed to both complement the sixth editio...

A Short Medieval Reader contains the essential primary sources for exploring the Middle Ages in depth. Designed to both complement the sixth editio...

Magic existed in diverse forms in the Middle Ages, from simple charms to complex and subversive demonic magic. Its negative characteristics were de...

The art of predicting earthly events from the movements of stars and planets has always been a source of fascination. Medieval astrologers, though ...