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Drought Conditions and the Collapse of the Visigothic Kingdom Ancient History, Medieval History / October 7, 2023 / architecture, Early Middle Ages, environmental history, Rome The ruins of Suso Monastery in San Millán de la Cogolla look eerily beautiful in this image, evocative of a distant past whose details are…
Pope Innocent and Vampirism Medieval History / August 29, 2024 / Central and Late Middle Ages, Christian history, Jewish history, medicine, religion This little Beasty comes from an early 15th-century manuscript as just part of a doodle or marginalia. It looks vampire-ish enough to set the mood…
Bayon Temple in Medieval Cambodia Africa, Asia and South Asia, Medieval History / September 30, 2024 / architecture, Eurasia/Middle Eastern history, medieval, religion Behold the Bayon Temple, one of several built under King Jayavarman VII (d. 1219) of the Khmer Empire of Medieval Camodian fame.Many consider Jayavarman VII…
Face Mutilation of Young Women in the Early Middle Ages Medieval History / October 7, 2024 / archaeology, Early Middle Ages, women's history If you can read this, you are not having a day as bad as the person here had, about 1,173 years ago, in the south…
