So first, I loved the blog post below. The Art Deco buildings from Riga, Latvia, are enticing. Take a long look at the details. The author visited the Baltic area and takes lovely pictures. https://almatcboykin.wordpress.com/2024/09/16/human-scale-buildings-and-jungendstil/?page_id=33831 Next, I messed up a password on my phone five or six years ago and thought it didn't matter. All [...]
Category: medieval cities
Dante and the Feast of Corpus Christi
In his Divine Comedy, Dante describes an awesome procession that occurs after he and Virgil reach the earthly paradise at the top of the mountain of Purgatory. Here are some excerpts from Canto 28 ** When round toward me the Lady wholly turned, And said: “My brother, look and listen now!” And lo, so [...]
City states or cities
Cities in Medieval times were strange creatures. They were often governed from afar by a king or emperor and as long as his representative was satisfied no-one else was fully able to intervene in their affairs. If a noble family was in charge of a city then it functioned slightly differently. This immensely complicated topic [...]
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