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3 books you must read! Theme? Middle Ages

  The manager of the Anton Pfeiler bookshop, Christine Ammer, gives us 3 book tips on the subject of the Middle Ages.   “Die Nibelungen” by Roman Wolf, “Der...

The Aratea Vaticana and the Book of Fixed Stars

      Fascination stars: Since the dawn of time, we have been fascinated by the night sky.   Thousands of years before our era, there were already the first...

What is LOVE? And HOW do you find it? (Part 2)

According to our modern understanding, we mean that one simply “meets” love; not so in the medieval understanding: according to the symbolism of the story of...

Women of the Middle Ages

Today is International Women’s Day! But what role did they play in the Middle Ages?   Did they have an influence on the society of the time?   Did they...

Proofs and signs of LOVE

What did lovers give each other in the Middle Ages?   What significance did a little box have?   And what could “picking a rose” have meant in the Middle...

My favourite miniature (2): The Vestal Tuccia

    The dogma of virginity: what is it? How can it be proven?   Many people in the Middle Ages were concerned with this question, including Stefan Lochner and...

Good angel, Bad angel?! DISCOVER how hell was created!

On the panel of the Isenheim Altar in the Antonite Monastery in Alsace, a small black devil has been discovered. Or is it an angel?   We do...

The Black Death – Plague and Middle Ages

Since the beginning of last year, we have been experiencing a pandemic with a virus as the causative agent. We are very lucky that the Sars-Cov-2...

Dantes Second Circle of Hell: Paolo and Francesca

      Exactly 700 years ago today, on 14 September 1321, the poet Dante Alighieri died. As we are currently addressing the topic of “Lovers in the Middle...

Back to the Future (1): Nature & Middle Age

Macrocosm and microcosm, human, nature and the universe. How did people in the Middle Ages understand themselves and the environment? What was natural, what knowledge of...

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3 books you must read! Theme? Middle Ages

  The manager of the Anton Pfeiler bookshop, Christine Ammer, gives us 3 book tips on the subject of the Middle Ages.   “Die Nibelungen” by Roman Wolf, “Der...

The Aratea Vaticana and the Book of Fixed Stars

      Fascination stars: Since the dawn of time, we have been fascinated by the night sky.   Thousands of years before our era, there were already the first...

What is LOVE? And HOW do you find it? (Part 2)

According to our modern understanding, we mean that one simply “meets” love; not so in the medieval understanding: according to the symbolism of the story of...

Women of the Middle Ages

Today is International Women’s Day! But what role did they play in the Middle Ages?   Did they have an influence on the society of the time?   Did they...

Proofs and signs of LOVE

What did lovers give each other in the Middle Ages?   What significance did a little box have?   And what could “picking a rose” have meant in the Middle...

My favourite miniature (2): The Vestal Tuccia

    The dogma of virginity: what is it? How can it be proven?   Many people in the Middle Ages were concerned with this question, including Stefan Lochner and...

Good angel, Bad angel?! DISCOVER how hell was created!

On the panel of the Isenheim Altar in the Antonite Monastery in Alsace, a small black devil has been discovered. Or is it an angel?   We do...

The Black Death – Plague and Middle Ages

Since the beginning of last year, we have been experiencing a pandemic with a virus as the causative agent. We are very lucky that the Sars-Cov-2...

Dantes Second Circle of Hell: Paolo and Francesca

      Exactly 700 years ago today, on 14 September 1321, the poet Dante Alighieri died. As we are currently addressing the topic of “Lovers in the Middle...

Back to the Future (1): Nature & Middle Age

Macrocosm and microcosm, human, nature and the universe. How did people in the Middle Ages understand themselves and the environment? What was natural, what knowledge of...