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The title page from a 1542 edition of Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 - 1400 CE). This edition was edited by William Thynne (c. 16th Century - 1546 CE) and is one of the most valuable surviving manuscripts...

A photograph of the First Class (Saloon) dining room of the Cunard liner RMS Lusitania. The ship sailed on its maiden voyage in September 1907 and crossed the Atlantic over 200 times. The liner was infamously...

The second quadrangle at Jesus College, Oxford. Part of Oxford University, the college was founded in 1571 CE during the reign of Elizabeth I of England (r. 1558-1603 CE). The second quadrangle was built in the 17th century...

Pandulf IV of Capua being imprisoned by Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (r. 1014-1024), illustration from Cod. Pal. germ. 149, Bl. 198v, c. 1450. Heidelberg University Library.

A Chinese painting of a Mongol horseman with bow and arrow. Made in China, during the Song Dynasty (1644 - 1912 CE). Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk. Painting: 68 x 44.5 cm. (26 3/4 x 17 1/2 in.) Mount: 237...

Sestertius commemorating Trajan's rebuilding of the Circus Maximus, showing the Arch of Titus (not to be confused with the Arch of Titus built over the Via Sacra), which looks down from...

Pages from an illuminated manuscript of the Romaunt of the Rose, c. 1440 - 1450 CE. This poem is thought to have been translated by Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 - 1400 CE) from an earlier 13th Century CE French...

On this celestial globe, made by the Flemish cartographer Gerard Mercator (Louvain, 1551), the Coma Berenices (here called “Cincinnus”) is shown between the constellations Boötes (“Bubulcus”) and Virgo; the globe projects the constellations...

The First Court of Magdalene College, part of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1542 CE. The court and chapel were first laid out in the 16th century CE and then added to and altered...

Cover of Rome: An Empire's Story Second Edition by Greg Woolf. Published by Oxford University Press.