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...earliest surviving examples in the Turkic world of pictures made for display during recitals of stories," says Filiz Çagman, one of the show's curators and director of the Topkapi Palace Museum. Among several stunning carpets in the exhibition is a beautifully preserved woolen one from 13th century Konya. The carpet came from the mausoleum of the Anatolian Seljuk ruler Sultan Ala'al-Din Kay Qubad, who died in 1237, and is unique in its simple composition and color scheme. Simplicity was not an effect sought or achieved by the imperial architect Sinan, who designed the magnificent 16th century...
...coaches are fired at the drop of a pass, Steelers chairman Dan Rooney--whose father Art founded the team in 1933 and whose son Art II is team president--gave Steelers coach Bill Cowher a contract extension after last season's 6-10 performance. Cowher, 47, is in his 13th year with the Steelers, who have made the playoffs in nine of those years. Over the past 36 years, the team has had just two coaches, Cowher and Chuck Noll. During that time, the Indianapolis, né Baltimore, Colts have gone through...
...poorly from the field—Harvard’s 37.5 percent mark just edged Lehigh’s 34.6—so controlling the boards was especially important. Sophomore forward Matt Stehle led the way for Harvard with 13 rebounds, increasing his average to 10.2 per game, 13th best in the country. Senior center Graham Beatty, who filled in for Cusworth, hauled in nine rebounds...
...feeding trough or at best a stall. Either word would be consistent with the kind of rural poverty that has inspired poor people and their champions throughout the history of Christianity. Today's crèche scenes, even the more elaborate ones, actually descend from an attempt by the 13th century ascetic genius St. Francis of Assisi to recapture this humble ideal. Put off by the jewel-encrusted and gilt-covered re-creations in the noble courts of his time, he borrowed some real farm animals and real straw and convened his midnight Mass on Christmas Eve of 1223 around...
McKenna’s best known work deals with the court poets of 12th and 13th century Wales. Her translations and interpretations in The Medieval Welsh Religious Lyric have garnered much acclaim for granting English-speaking medievalists access to previously overlooked works...