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  • Abelard castrated
  • Byzantine wife saves husband
  • Amphitryon & Geta duped
  • Chastelaine de Vergi tragedy
  • Aristotle’s advice to Alexander
  • Empress Theodora: woman leader
  • Tristan & Isuet
  • Xanthippe & Socrates
  • New Modern Sexism Scale

sensory ecology

Biological and behavioral description and analysis of human senses in ecologically relevant circumstances

al-Farazdaq realized Imruʼ al-Qays' poetic revelation

Through its theatrically enacted bi-narrative, al-Farazdaq’s story of the girls overturns biographical reading of Imruʼ al-Qays’s Muʻallaqah. … Read the post al-Farazdaq realized Imruʼ al-Qays' poetic revelation

cleric-scholars’ Latin lyrics long for bodily action

Amid their learned classical references, cleric-scholars’ 12th-century Latin lyrics from the Carmina Burana show carnal love trumping reason. … Read the post cleric-scholars’ Latin lyrics long for bodily action

Christian icons in Islamic world during Byzantine iconoclasm

Christian icons were used spiritually before Islam, continued to be used through Byzantine iconoclasm, and were prevalent in the 9th-century Islamic world. … Read the post Christian icons in Islamic world during Byzantine iconoclasm

Dunhuang visualization shows media lever for cultural assets

The Sackler Gallery’s fantastic Dunhuang cave visualization installation shows new media technologies that can greatly lever cultural and economic assets. … Read the post Dunhuang visualization shows media lever for cultural assets

spiritual use of images in ancient Chinese Christianity

Amid vigorous, decentralized visual-spiritual competition in ancient China, the story of Jesus, not spiritual use of images, distinguished “The Way.” … Read the post spiritual use of images in ancient Chinese Christianity

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