Tabula Cebetis 3: Education and ignorance
The third part of our series on the Tabula Cebetis is about the second wall circle, where you have to follow the path of virtue again...
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...
Tabula Cebetis 2: Greed, Lust and Fame
What was the moral compass 1000 years ago? What happened when you let yourself be tempted? Learn more about the dangers and traps of the Middle...
The Path of Life: Tabula Cebetis
The motif at the foot of the temple of the god Kronos shows people’s journey through life and the hurdles that have to be overcome. But what...
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...
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...
Book art of the Middle Ages
Today with Alexander Wilhelm, Vice President of Verlag Müller & Schindler. What is medieval book art? And how can it be defined? In more than 1000 years...
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...