The savvy medieval historian knows that it’s pure myth that knights needed to be hoisted into their saddles because of their heavy armor. However, one can’t help but wonder how warriors could move ...
Medieval armor was one of the prized purchases by Americans taking the Grand Tour of Europe in Victorian days. Clever metalsmiths made copies of the armor that were able to fool the average tourist, ...
The Met’s ‘Renaissance of Etching’ Exhibition Makes 15th Century Problems Look Oddly Relatable
Landscape with a Horseman and His Groom, ca. 1552–61 by Battista Franco. Metropolitan Museum of Art / Public Domain Centuries before comic books first began to grace newsstands, it was pretty hard to ...
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