I just wanted to let you all know about the really interesting symposium on pilgrimage called ‘Spirituality, Resilience and Regeneration’ Pilgrimage routes of Europe and Japan thats taking place on Thu 19 & Fri 20 May, 2022. This free event can be attended online and tickets can be obtained...
Survivals across Europe depict some of the richness of the vestments, not to mention the skills of the embroiderers. Samuel Pepys better known for his diaries and love of a buxom wench than his historical interest left papers to Magdalene College, Cambridge which included a book of drawings dati...
Dance of death, medieval allegorical concept of the all-conquering and equalizing power of death, expressed in the drama, poetry, music, and visual arts of western Europe mainly in the late Middle Ages. Strictly speaking, it is a literary or pictorial re
pharmaceutical section returns again to plants and herbs and depicts what are thought to be medicinal plants. This section differs from the botany section in that many pages include drawings ofelaboratejars or bottles and in some cases many types of herbs appear on a single page. Though the ...
NickelHeinrich L., Medieval Architecture in Eastern Europe. Trans. JaffaAlisa. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1983. Pp. 209; 81 drawings, 206 black-and-white and color photographs. $47.50. First published in 1981 as Osteuropische Baukunst des Mittelalters by Edition Leipzig. ...
Piranesi's drawings show different architectural styles side by side, and it was this coexistence that urged Ribeiro to investigate what has changed in Rome and Tivoli since their conception. The project, officially dubbed "Piranesi Project (In search of Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s Rome, 1720-177...
This is a couple of hundred years earlier than the conventional chronology which has tended to place the origin of Pictish symbols in the sixth century, long after the end of Roman rule in northern Europe, rather than in a period when the Empire still flourished. Assigning precise dates to ...
(for us) are, of course, the famous doodles that were frequently placed on flyleaves. Testing the pen was a common occurrence, given that the quill had to be cut several times per day. Scribes turned to the last page of a nearby book to jot short sentences of doodle little drawings ...
Always wanted to know what medieval hygiene was really like? And whether medieval movies are actually accurate? And what's up with all those weird drawings of knights fighting snails in old manuscripts? Read on to find out, and vote up the most enlightening answers....
Crewel Embroidery by Erica Wilson-Stitch diagrams are good and easy to follow with black and white photographs of extant examples. Does not include French knot or Colonial Knot. 18th Century Embroidery Techniques by Gail Marsh-Color photography, line drawings and stitch diagrams, good basics in His...