Under John of Patmos, dragons had become unambiguous symbols of evil, and they inhabited the medieval gospels and hagiographies of early Christianity as chiefs among demons, but even as Christianity ...

I just saw it on the wall at the Cloisters, the Met’s medieval department far uptown in Manhattan. For me, this fresco represents medieval art at its ... s not forget that most monks were ...

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The reason so many knights did battle with snails in the margins of medieval ... the art historian Lilian Randall counted 70 examples, in 29 different books – most of which were printed in ...