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Middle Ages

Operation Dessert Storm

From source material quoted by al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, an eleventh-century scholar, in his humorous survey of Islamic scholarship concerning uninvited guests. Selections from the Art of Party-Crashing in Medieval Iraq, abridged and translated…

Byzantium

by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,

Their ears were uncircumcised

A historical view

by Philippe Ariès,

What we take for granted

by John A. Kuecken,

Even in 1066

by Harper’s Staff,

These everlasting regulations

by Marchette Gaylord Chute,

The most mysterious manuscript in the world

by John Matthews Manly,

Did Roger Bacon write it and has the key been found?

When knights were bold

Drawn by Harold Imbrie,

University life in the Middle Ages

by Waterman Thomas Hewett,

Literary notes

by Laurence Hutton,

A Middle-English nativity

by John Corbin,