For most students, the closest opportunity to directly engage with medieval European psalms, classical Chinese poetry, early Islamic manuscripts or other historical artifacts is observing glass ...

The 14th-century Shem Tov Bible is now being exhibited at the National Library of Israel, a year after a family bought it for ...

The Shahnama was completed in 1010 by the poet Firdawsi — sometimes transliterated as Ferdowsi — and tells the pre-Islamic ...

Christians in medieval Europe admired Islamic art without fully realizing ... including in the 13th-century manuscript, the ...

It also shows the shared culture and heritage between Muslim ... manuscripts rooms at Cambridge University Library and Trinity College have been studying scriptures and literature from the ...

In the Islamic case we would have heard the prayers and chants in large mosques and sufi meeting halls as well as the calls ...

Her research, recently published in The Burlington Magazine, provides crucial evidence of a medieval church using Islamic tents ... including in the 13th-century manuscript, the Cantigas de ...

Christians in medieval Europe admired Islamic art without fully realising ... including in the 13 th-century manuscript, the Cantigas de Santa Maria. They also match one of the few potential ...

Although you wouldn't dare doodle on a medieval manuscript today, squiggly lines (sometimes resembling fish or even elongated people), mini-drawings (a knight fighting a snail, for instance), and ...

The fanciful creatures are among decorative figures that caught the eyes of his six students when they got an up-close look at some illuminated medieval manuscripts. “One of the things we found ...

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies relies on the talents, scholarship and research of affiliated faculty across Saint Louis University, including faculty in the departments of English, ...

Join us for a special opportunity to see a number of medieval manuscripts temporarily on loan from the Newberry and discuss their interpretations. This event is hosted by the Medieval Research Group ...