<strong>The long read</strong>: Advances in fields such as spectrometry and gene sequencing are unleashing torrents of new data about the ancient world – and could offer answers to questions we never even knew to ask
Abstract. When the Black Death struck Western Europe in late 1347, city dwellers across the region were already practising public health, in part by building, m
Texts written by terrified scribes in plague-wracked cities don’t attest to the state of rural communities, but the crops they were growing (or not growing) certainly do
Middle Ages for Educators website brings Princeton scholarship to an international audience
Denise Valenti, Office of Communications
Jan. 11, 2021 4:35 p.m.
Illustration source: gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 14964, f. 33r
Princeton s Program in Medieval Studies and the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity have launched a new website, Middle Ages for Educators, aimed at high school and college students and educators worldwide and, more broadly, at anyone interested in studying or teaching Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
A page from the 13th-century manuscript “Image du monde,” by Gautier de Metz.
Source: gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 14964, f. 33r