Cultural History · Art History · Manuscript Studies What has Cleopatra to do with the Crusades? What does a picture of a dark-skinned Cleopatra do in a fourteenth-century manuscript produced at the papal court in Avignon? Ivo Wolsing • 06-12-2024
Robots at a medieval court: The automata of tenth-century Baghdad and Constantinople Moving and speaking statues – it sounds like something straight out of a science fiction novel, but they were central elements in the communication of power at the tenth-century Byzantine and Abbasid courts. Ivo Wolsing • 15-09-2023
