In addition to containing the earliest known example of the expression "red herring," this late 15th-century booklet, known as the Heege Manuscript, appears to record the repertoire of an ...

The second part in my video diary series on reconstructing a 15th century gown from a portrait. -References to archaeological findings are sourced from ‘Textiles and Clothing 1150 - 1450’ and ...

Sometimes our most-prized possessions get lost in a pile of junk. That seemed to be the case for a rare 15th-century decorative box that had been sitting in a dusty attic since 1967. It once ...

Killer rabbits might even have been a common trope among traveling minstrels, according to one scholar's discovery of a written record of a live performance preserved in a 15th-century manuscript ...

Around 1455, a medieval French painter and miniaturist named Jean Fouquet painted a small diptych with two panels, one of which depicts St. Stephen holding a strangely shaped stone—usually ...