Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Late medieval English culture was fascinated by the figure of the pagan, the ancestor whose religious difference must be negotiated, and by ...

Long before Santa Claus, caroling, and light-strewn Christmas trees, people in medieval Europe celebrated the Christmas season with 12 full days of feasting and revelry. Christmas in the Middle Ages ...

(3) In the case of this reliquary, if the small bottle was understood in the thirteenth century to be from the Roman period, the decision to appropriate it here would have demonstrated the triumph of ...