A Commonplace Book

A shameful tale .

I'm with Tyler Cowen on this. It needs a Sky Captain dieselpunk paleofuture treatment that recognizes how thoroughly the work is roote...

This site seems to be aimed at Freemasons and Templars, but offers what looks like some pretty decent reproductions of medieval buckles and...

An enormous searchable database of artefacts and coins .

A collaboration between ARTstor and the Bodleian Library to produce 25,000 images from 35mm filmstrip negatives and positive slides. Materia...

The Encampment of Henry at Marquison 18th c. copy of a 16th c. painting of Henry VIII's Boulogne campaign of 1544. Details.

Agnolo Gaddi: The Dream of Emperor Heraclius ca. 1385-87 This large fresco shows some useful details. Note how the upper part of the valenc...

Here is an article on Pandolfo's doublet, in which he was buried in 1427. Here are additional photographs of the doublet and a reconst...

Steve Muhlberger observes of democracy in the Middle East : Its prospects will be much brighter when the chant "Death to so-and-so...

A History of Agriculture and Prices in England from the year after the Oxford Parliament (1259) to the commencement of the Continental War (...