Appearing in all figural media from the mid-twelfth century, family trees and lineages made political claims for their patrons.

(The open access version of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.) The book proposes a reassessment of royal p

Polyphony and the Modern asks one fundamental question: what does it mean to be modern in one’s own time? To answer that question, this volume focuses on poly

Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 1200-1550 addresses fundamental questions about the interplay of visual and verbal communication in medieval

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