If we render the whole Middle Ages in monochrome, we're missing out on a key way in which medieval people conveyed social and spiritual values... Since they tended to think of color not in terms ...

The Tumblr sounds a bit like a college course: People of Color in European Art History ... says that artists from the Middle Ages "seem clearly interested in representing a diversity of ethnic ...

you'd get some really weird beauty tips during the Middle Ages. Like here's-this-arsenic-for-your-face weird. You would think that rubbing a little lemon on your lips to add some color wouldn't ...

A longstanding myth holds that people in medieval Christian Europe didn’t bathe. In fact, the Middle Ages subscribed heartily to the adage “cleanliness is next to godliness.” Thinkers of the ...

In the Middle Ages European artists and theologians ... red monster of later depictions. The color of the holy kingdom in the sixth century, red became associated with hellfire and the devil ...

(Matt Cardy/Getty Images) Most Americans get their ideas about the Middle Ages from popular culture, like “Game of Thrones,” or from the inevitable rigmarole after a politician refers to “a ...

The European Middle Ages seem to be having a moment. Although it’s true that, essentially since the time they ended, the period has been used to justify the shape of an author’s contemporary ...

“It’s about asserting the racial and political innocence of the Middle Ages,” said Cord Whitaker, an assistant professor of English at Wellesley College and a member of Medievalists of Color.

“It’s straight out of a 14th-century playbook,” said Jay Rubenstein, a history professor at the University of Southern California who specializes in the high Middle Ages. The most cinematic ...

Once upon a time, popular culture used to embrace charming or comic fantasies about the Middle Ages. From Camelot to Monty Python, Disney castles to Medieval Times dinner theater, we dreamt of the ...

In the Middle Ages, music and dancing often played a key role in social events and religious ceremonies. It provided a sense of togetherness and well-being, that for the majority of the peasant ...