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Gothic
Refers to the style and period that began in northern France in the mid-twelfth century, and spread to the rest of western Europe.
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Gothic architecture explained

Gothic architecture, an introduction

Florence in the Late Gothic period, an introduction

Spanish Gothic cathedrals, an introduction

Illustrating a 15th-century Italian altarpiece

The life of Christ in medieval and Renaissance art

The medieval calendar

Musical imagery in the Global Middle Ages

Illumination of Jewish biblical texts

Medieval synagogues in Toledo, Spain

Medieval churches: sources and forms

Coming Out: Queer Erasure and Censorship from the Middle Ages to Modernity

Who’s who? How to recognize saints…

The bestiary (book of beasts) in the medieval world, an introduction

Decorating the book

The medieval origins of the modern footnote

Architecture and liturgy

Images of African Kingship, Real and Imagined

Clasps: hugging a medieval book

Listening to the medieval book

Making books for profit in medieval times

Making Manuscripts: The Page

Manuscripts: major works of art

Mapping the world

Medieval books in leather (and other materials)

Medieval goldsmiths

Medieval manuscripts, an introduction

Medieval notepads

Medieval supermodels

Skins and scraps

The Alchemy of Color and Chemical Change in Medieval Manuscripts

Saving Venice

The Medieval and Renaissance Altarpiece

The work of the scribe

The Bestiary

Travel, trade and exploration in the Middle Ages

Venetian glass, an introduction

Written in the Stars: Astronomy and Astrology in Medieval Manuscripts

Pilgrimage souvenirs

The Miracle of the Black Leg
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Bayon, the most notable temple at Angkor Thom (photo: Dmitry A. Mottl, CC BY-SA 4.0)
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