Stolen Goods or Finders Keepers? Controversies at the British Museum

Stolen Goods or Finders Keepers? Controversies at the British Museum

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_8HXihcmUk&ab_channel=TheMuseumGuide[/embed] Looking for more information about the British Museum? Watch my video about its top ten treasures. Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe. Leave a comment and let me know your thoughts about the controversies of the British Museum.

Representing Medieval Space: A Panel Discussion

Representing Medieval Space

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPX5Wk1Vxbw&ab_channel=TheExilianChannel[/embed] With historians Mária Vargha, Acer Lewis, and Madeleine Sterns: chaired by James Baillie. This panel was recorded as part of the Coding Medieval Worlds 3 event, run by Exilian and the University of Vienna Digital Humanities Group, on February 25, 2023.

Jesus Had a Vagina (According to Medieval Christian Mysticism) – Tales of Times Forgotten

Jesus's wounds resembling a vagina in medieval art

About a month ago, a whole host of right-wing media outlets, including The Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail, the New York Post, NBC Montana, and Fox News, published a flurry of wildly sensationalist articles claiming that a dean at the University of Cambridge said that Jesus was transgender. As Candida Moss, a scholar of the…

Naughty Nuns, Flatulent Monks, and Other Surprises of Sacred Medieval Manuscripts

Surprises of Sacred Medieval Manuscripts

Flipping through an illustrated manuscript from the 13th century, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Jesus loved a good fart joke. That’s because the margins of these handmade devotional books were filled with imagery depicting everything from scatological humor to mythical beasts to sexually explicit satire. Though we may still get a kick out of…

Vatican returns Parthenon sculpture fragments in move that could add pressure on British Museum to do the same | World News | Sky News

Vatican Returns Parts of Parthenon

The Vatican has returned three fragments of the Parthenon sculptures to Greece in a move that could increase pressure on the British Museum to do the same.The sculptures, which represent a horse and two male heads, were originally created as part of the famous Parthenon temple in Athens but had been held in the Vatican…

What was the Inquisition? The Origins, Theory and Practice of the Medieval War Against Heresy

What was the Inquisition?
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There is perhaps nothing that evokes the grim, tortured terror of the middle ages more than the institution of the Inquisition. Long conceived as the worst …

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs7OEFCQkKs&ab_channel=ESOTERICA[/embed] There is perhaps nothing that evokes the grim, tortured terror of the middle ages more than the institution of the Inquisition. Long conceived as the worst imaginable combination of legal impunity and religious fanaticism, the inquisition remains more the object of horror than deeply understood. Originating in the 13th century attempt to suppress the…