That unassuming manuscript turned out to be the only surviving copy of The Book of Margery Kempe, a medieval text chronicling the ... such as nuns being allowed to wear white silk dresses and loose ...

In the second millennium, beginning in the 12th century, says medieval historian Miri Rubin ... as a nonverbal catechism. The dusky woman’s dark hair is parted in the middle, possibly ...

In August 2017, Dorothy Kim, an assistant professor of English, watched in horror as news outlets covered the neo-Nazi and white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Rally participants ...

As a new film exploring her life is announced, why does a patron saint of France remain such an object of cultural fascination, nearly 800 years after her death?

He is proud to offer this minimally invasive option, because in the past, surgeons removed all the lymph nodes as a ...

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“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...

Ever since Daniel Craig announced that he would be turning in the tuxedo and putting down the martini glass, the race has ...

Ten years later, Chloe Sevigny donned a choppy peroxide wig, a partial suit of armor and a white muslin peasant ... curator of the upcoming Medieval Women exhibition at the British Library ...

A new exhibition at the British Library explores the public, private and spiritual lives of such figures as Joan of Arc, Christine de Pizan and Hildegard of Bingen Medieval women’s lives were ...