New research suggests that women were the scribes of at least 1.1 percent of manuscripts in the Latin West between 400 and ...

Venice used new art commissions to help its citizens understand the changing nature of power and quell public anxiety during ...

Finding an interest in more serious fare, Han Zimmer goes for 'all the heavy ones' inside the Criterion Closet.

However, medieval readers did not understand or perceive racial differences ... The Church has always needed stories of ...

Lee John Whittington, a philosopher who studied luck, didn’t think “unluckiness” was a quality people had. Then he met his ...

In his autobiographical account, The Travels of Marco Polo, the famous 13th-century Venetian explorer recorded his visit to Sumatra, Indonesia. "There are wild elephants in the country", he wrote ...

There’s a reassuring sense that even in the 14th century, there was a lot going on well outside the mainstream ...

What it tells us about the past: Around 800 years ago, a 7-year-old boy named Onfim seems to have gotten bored with doing schoolwork and instead drew himself as a horseback rider slaying an enemy.

Pianist and former child prodigy Arsha Kaviani uses his gift in ways that excites crowds and results in one-off creations for ...