CAMBRIDGE, England, April 25 (UPI) --With the help of a trio of classical musicians, Cambridge researcher Sam Barrett has resurrected a series of songs from the Middle Ages -- a task thought ...
Deck the halls with crumhorns and sackbutts, it's time for a very Medieval Christmas list of greatest hits from the 4th Century to the 16th. (Johannes Ockeghem's setting of the "Kyrie" from his 'Missa ...
From Harry Potter to Game of Thrones, pop culture is saturated with medieval imagery. Now, a new exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, “The Fantasy of the Middle Ages,” explores this connection by ...
About a thousand years ago, a crucial page of a musical notation was stolen. It took decades to reconstruct the piece after the missing page was recovered. Call it a medieval miracle. PEMBROKE TRIO: ...
YOU CAN learn a lot about a society by examining who or what it reveres. You can learn even more by studying what it is afraid of, as a new exhibit at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York proves.
“In public, your bottom should emit no secret winds past your thighs. It disgraces you if other people notice any of your smelly filth.” This useful bit of advice for young courtiers in the early 13th ...