Medieval health maintenance. In the Middle Ages, the health of family members, from infancy to old age, was maintained through a variety of strategies that aimed for balance in the body.

Medieval scribes took their animal illustrations very seriously. In a time when pigs were seen as a real danger and animals were trialled in court, it should be no surprise that the scribes of 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 ...

Cats doing cat things: sleep, play with mice, and take an unhealthy interest in caged birds from a medieval bestiary (via Bestiary ) An angry chef with a big knife, from The Luttrell Psalter, 1325 ...

At first glance, these may look like Russian Orthodox iconography from the Middle ages. But they are actually striking illustrations of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien by Ukrainian artist Sergei Iukhimov.

New research is rewriting the history of the world’s most famous early medieval manuscript – a lavishly illustrated 1,200-year-old copy of the Gospels known today as the Book of Kells.. It had ...

Peter Jackson’s interpretation of The Lord of the Rings is so dominant in our collective consciousness that it’s easy to forget that it’s just one possible visualization of J.R.R. Tolkien ...

Medieval Orthodox illuminations? Look closer. These are actually Lord of the Rings illustrations by an Ukrainian artist Sergei Iukhimov. You can view many more here.

In fact, the team experimented with the alphabet chart with primary school kids at HSR Layout and all of them effortlessly identified words on 14th-century inscriptions.