Medieval

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Arts & Culture

The poem behind the Green Knight

The medieval romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is now a movie, but the poem itself already has a surprisingly contemporary message about tradition, modernity and our sense of self

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Arts & Culture

Is this the earliest depiction of a dodo in art?

The Jagiellonian arrases – tapestries that decorate the walls of Wawel Castle in Poland – may be one of the earliest known artistic representation of the long-extinct dodo

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Arts & Culture

Castles, caves and rock shelters

Archaeology in the rugged landscape of Georgia reveals a medieval world where caves and underground shelters provided refuge from raiders, allowing a threatened civilisation to flourish

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Arts & Culture

A blow to the heart of the City of Light

The fire that struck the 850-year-old Notre Dame cathedral has devastated Parisians, and many around the world, but the building has long withstood violence whether revolution or war

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Arts & Culture

How did a cockatoo reach 13th century Sicily?

Images of a cockatoo in Frederick II of Sicily’s falconry book reveal how trade routes around Australia’s north were flourishing as far back as medieval times

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Arts & Culture

A distant mirror of disruption

A new exhibition of Kerry Stokes’ Renaissance books captures the moment print challenged the handwritten volume

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