Student Q&A: Medieval Fae

Are the medieval fae really your friends, or are they foes who could manipulate you out of your own two shoes?

Honor and Defense: Tournament Armor in the Late Medieval Ages

Honor and Defense Tournament Armor in the Late Medieval Ages by Helena von Sadovszky   Chivalric tournaments and contests were a form of battlefield, in which armor played a significant role. Largely because armor was a symbol of chivalry and functionality intertwined with what it meant to be a knight. ‘L’arnès del cavalier’ (The Knight’s…

The Sistine Chapel Ceiling: A Renaissance Icon of the West

The Sistine Chapel Ceiling A Renaissance Icon by Noelle Weaver   I recently had the opportunity to visit Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition in Dayton. The art exhibit takes high quality images of the different pieces of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome and presents them on canvas for individual to-scale viewing. It…

La Ofrenda- A Retelling of Orpheus

La Ofrenda is your Friend A Hispanic Retelling of the Orpheus Myth   We’ve been telling each other the story of Orpheus for thousands of years. Countless operas have been composed, myths and stories told, and it’s even on Broadway in a folk pop musical Hadestown. It’s a myth that has stirred the imagination for generations….