Images

Iconoclasm in a Church, oil on panel painting by Dirck van Delen, the Netherlands, 1630. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Portrait van Menno Simons on the title page of Opera omnia theologica, by Jan Luyken, 1681. Amsterdam Museum.

Melchior Hoffman (l. c. 1495 to c. 1543), portrait by Christoffel van Sichem, Amsterdam, 1600. Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, München.

A scene from the 16th-century Codex Telleriano-Remensis showing the death of Pedro de Alvarado (c. 1485-1541), the Spanish conquistador who became the first governor of Guatemala in 1527. Alvarado was killed in Mexico when his horse fell...

A colourised version of an early 20th-century portrait of Pedro de Alvarado (c. 1485-1541), the Spanish conquistador who became the first governor of Guatemala in 1527. Original illustration by Tomás Povedano.

Brown grass on a body of water at Norden, Germany.

A beautiful pond emerges from the waterfall deriving from Mt. Saos, Samothrace.

Gold dinar of Shajara al-Durr, sultana of Egypt (r. 1250 CE). The British Museum, London.

Mausoleum of Shajara al-Durr, sultana of Egypt (r. 1250) in the al-Khalifa neighbourhood, Cairo.

This map illustrates the changing patterns of Christian pilgrimage during the Middle Ages: for most Europeans the long, perilous, and costly journey to the Holy Land was too far, dangerous, and forbiddingly expensive, so devotion redirected...