The Berkshire Eagle35m
From Renaissance motets to modern melodies, Chanticleer’s repertoire spans centuries
From the 1300s to the present day, Chanticleer music director Tim Keeler has no shortage of material to draw from. Keeler and ...
Smithsonian Magazine6h
High-Tech Imaging Allows Researchers to Read Handwritten Medieval Arthurian Tales Hidden in the Binding of a Property Record
The stories are part of a French sequel to Arthurian legend, and its binding was repurposed in the 16th century ...
The Blogs | The Times of Israel15h
Islamic-Christian Relations & Antisemitism
Christian-Muslim relations have played a significant role in shaping antisemitism in the Middle East. While Christian Arabs ...
How an Ancient Disease Is Outsmarting Modern Medicine
An outbreak of tuberculosis (TB), a lung disease often marked by a persistent cough, began in January 2024 in Kansas City, ...
Artnet News1d
How Gothic Art From the Middle Ages Inspired Modern Artists
How did Gothic art influence the modernists? An exhibition in Norway explores how artists like Dürer and Hans Holbein's ...
Rare Merlin and King Arthur text found hidden in binding of medieval book
Now after years of painstaking collaborative work with the university’s Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory (CHIL), ...
As ‘right to die’ gains more acceptance, a scholar of Catholicism explains the position of the Catholic Church
The Catholic Church opposes assisted suicide and euthanasia, but it also doesn’t support treatments that prolong suffering in ...
Medieval Tales of Merlin and Arthur, Hidden for Centuries, Return to Light
Cambridge University researchers found a manuscript with rare Arthurian tales bound into a ledger more than 400 years old and ...
Why medieval couples thought weasel testicles could cure infertility
Why medieval couples thought weasel testicles could cure infertility - It wasn’t merely superstition or ‘blind ...
Weasel testicles infertility cure features in exhibition on medieval medicine
Weasel testicles infertility cure features in exhibition on medieval medicine - Manuscripts drawn from the collections of the ...
University of Cambridge6d
Weasel testicles, stargazing and royal remedies: medieval medicine examined in Curious Cures exhibition
Testimony in one 15 th -century manuscript records how a friar at Stamford was cured of his nosebleeds by dipping his testicles into cold water and vinegar. Another records the apparently successful ...