Manuscripts and Books

Reflections: Beth Morrison on Simon Bening

Listen to a curator consider how our pets link us to the Middle Ages.

How shared texts offer community in a time of isolation.

Nava Streiter | April 8, 2020

A Getty Initiative to provide greater access to the Florentine Codex, the first Indigenous encyclopedia of the New World.

Discover how medieval Christians interpreted Hebrew scripture in illuminated manuscripts.

Val Tate | March 10, 2020

Breaking out of the Eurocentric model of medieval studies.

How the political relationship between Africa and Europe manifests in a famous Biblical image.

Getty Media | January 6, 2020

A wide-ranging new Getty book examines the role of text and image across cultures over the thousand-year span of the Middle Ages.

Bryan C. Keene | December 9, 2019

Explore the impact of African rulers on European culture.

Because not everyone likes pumpkin pie

Caitlin Shamberg | November 25, 2019

What did people in medieval Europe believe about animals and how have those beliefs impacted art and culture then and now?

A bite-sized introduction to the bestiary of the European Middle Ages.

Ominous imagery in the book of beasts.