Concepts of the World in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period This volume offers Ingrid Baumgärtner's central articles on the medieval and early modern history of cartography for the first time ...

If you were walking down the street, could you pick a Victorian terrace from a Federation bungalow? Restoration Australia ...

Together the essays present a clear picture of what we know about deviant speech in medieval culture, a picture that has begun to achieve the depth and richness of scholarship on slander in the early ...

She also has expertise on the popularity of poetry in print during the early modern period. Mary works on the continuities between the medieval and the early modern, especially in relation to the ...

“Previously, the Victorian period of architecture of the late 1800s and early 1900s was dark, compartmentalized, and heavily ornamented,” says architect Diana Melichar. “The modern style of ...

Explore the history and culture of the early modern period. What was life like in the age of da Vinci? What is the basis of our understanding of concepts such as nature, romance, freedom, and ...

Early modern towns grew quickly ... This made people’s clothes and shoes very dirty. As in the medieval period, houses in towns were often three storeys tall with overhanging ‘jetties’.

This social housing scheme has a complex history, involving the integration of Algerians into the French lifestyle, the use of modern architecture to challenge traditional Muslim ways of living ...

The Modern period in Japanese literature overlaps the reigns of three Emperors: Meiji (1868-1912), Taishō (1912-1926), and early Shōwa (1926-1945). Similar to American writers, Japanese writers of the ...