Word: medievales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"It's an old medieval custom," whispered the lady in the blue chemise. "You fill it up with champagne and everybody drinks from it."
William Alfred, assistant professor of English and General Education, has stepped beyond his customary field of medieval studies to playwrighting. His first play, entitled "Hogan's Goat," will receive its premier performance in Sanders Theatre Nov. 1 and 2.
Hidden Flames. A major breakthrough in Byzantine art was the rediscovery of the Russian icon, one of the great, traditional art forms. Medieval Russians carried wonderworking icons into battle against the Tartars, held them aloft in religious processions, encrusted church partitions with them. Because pious tradition held that the earliest...
The Thunderer. Soviet researches, summarized in a handsome outsized volume published this year by UNESCO (Early Russian Icons, New York Graphic Society; $18), establish the medieval stronghold city of Novgorod, southeast of Leningrad, as one of the great centers of icon making. A Constantinople-trained Greek named Theophanes-called by...
As strange as any medieval unicorn or griffin is the life and personality of Terence Hanbury ("Tim") White. He lives on the pebble-sized English Channel isle of Alderney (pop. 1,600), famed for its low taxes, cheap liquor, puffins and stormy petrels. Stormy Petrel White arrived ten years ago...