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The romance genre owes a major debt to the Middle Ages. That's where we get the word, the genre, and most of its tropes.

There is an image that appears in several medieval texts ranging from Arthurian romance to Italian philosophy. It depicts Madam Fortune turning a wheel with four people on it — a king sits atop the ...

To today’s audiences, medieval art can look outright bizarre. Before the stylistic shifts that defined the Renaissance, medieval illustrations often featured flat, unrealistic figures and fantastical ...

A half-man, half-bird beast playing a flute. A cat’s head popping out of a snail shell. A woman barfing up a tiny demon. These are just some of the otherworldly critters that scribes in the Middle ...

When he first saw "The Last Supper and the Agony in the Garden" at the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, Jeffrey Forgeng was puzzled by the choreography of the circa-1300, Central Italian fresco, ...