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How did Medieval People Feel about Notre-Dame?
Dec 20 2024
The first attempt to understand medieval emotional responses to buildings like Notre-Dame built across the whole of Western Europe.
A Window into the Early Modern Mediterranean, through the Fascinating Life of Ahmad ibn Qâsim al-Hajarî
Dec 20 2023
By Oumelbanine Nina Zhiri, author of Beyond Orientalism: Ahmad ibn Qasim al-Hajari between Europe and North AfricaWhen I first encountered the fascinating Moroccan polymath Ahmad ibn Qâsim al-Hajarî (c. 1569 - c.1640), I realized how the many threads of his life and career formulated a different
Teaching the Medieval through The Sea in the Middle
Aug 22 2022
By Brian Catlos, co-author of The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650–1650If Medieval Studies, as some say, has a “whiteness problem,” Mediterranean Studies does not. Recentering the narrative of the pre-Modern West on the region of the sea and the lands that surround it better refle