The New York Times

Looking at Sexuality With a Medieval Sensibility

At the Met Cloisters in Manhattan, paintings, statuettes and other objects demonstrate that human desire transcends time and cultures. The fictional tale of Phyllis and Aristotle, in which she gets ...
Observer

The Getty Center’s ‘Going Places: Travel in the Middle Ages’ Is a Visual Feast of Medieval Movement

The idea of tourism is a relatively new one. In the medieval period, no one traveled for fun. In fact, most people never ventured further than twenty miles from their hometown. If they did, it was ...
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The last lost world : ice ages, human origins, and the invention of the Pleistocene / Lydia V. Pyne and Stephen J. Pyne

Prologue : Mossel Bay, South Africa -- pt. 1. How the Pleistocene got its ice -- 1. Rift -- African rift -- Renaissance rift -- Past imperfect -- 2. Ice -- Ice Age -- The ice cometh and goeth -- ...
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Biographia philosophica : being an account of the lives, writings, and inventions, of the most eminent philosophers and mathematicians who have flourished from the earliest ...

Houzeau & Lancaster. Astronomie (1964 ed.), 9255. siris_sil_345568 ...