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Grief & Consolation in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess
In Geoffrey Chaucer's first major work, The Book of the Duchess (c. 1370 CE), two genres of medieval literature are combined – the French poetic convention of courtly love and the high medieval dream vision – to create a poem of enduring...
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The Sioux who Married the Crow Chief's Daughter
The Sioux who Married the Crow Chief's Daughter is a legend of the Lakota Sioux about Chief Big Eagle who left his people to marry a woman of the enemy Crow nation but never forgot the duties owed to his own people. The story highlights the...
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Dream of Solomon
A 17th century CE oil painting by Luca Giordano titled 'The Dream of Solomon' depicting the moment God gives the king of Israel his legendary wisdom.
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Jacob's Dream at Bethel by Raphael
Jacob's Dream at Bethel, fresco by Raphael (1483-1520).
Vatican Palace.
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Mongyudowondo (Dream Journey to the Peach Blossom Land)
Mongyudowondo (Dream Journey to the Peach Blossom Land), painting by An Gyenon, 1447 CE.
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Queen Maya's Dream Is Explained
Queen Maya’s dream is explained, stone relief from the Gandhara region, modern-day Pakistan, circa 100-300 CE.
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco.
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Medieval Literature
Medieval literature is defined broadly as any work written in Latin or the vernacular between c. 476-1500, including philosophy, religious treatises, legal texts, as well as works of the imagination. More narrowly, however, the term applies...
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What's Left of Big Foot's Band - Wounded Knee Massacre Survivors
Photo known as "What's Left of Big Foot's Band" by John C. H. Grabill, January 1891, showing the surviving members of the people of Lakota Sioux Chief Spotted Elk (also known as Big Foot, l. 1826-1890) after the Wounded Knee Massacre of 29...
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The 'Big Four', Paris Peace Conference
A photograph of the 'Big Four' leaders at the Paris Peace Conference at Versailles which decided peace terms after the First World War (1914-18). Left to Right: Prime Minister of Italy Vittorio Orlando (1860-1952), Prime Minister of the United...
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Model of Big Bertha Howitzer
A model of the German howitzer 'Big Bertha', used during the First World War (1914-18). Made By Krupp, the gun could fire a shell weighing 1,786 lbs (810 kg) a distance of 10,000 yards (9,144 m). (Musée de l'Armée, Paris)